Date of Release World Premiere 12th June 1967, Odeon Leicester Square, London.
Running Time 116 minutes
Starring Sean Connery as Ian Fleming’s James Bond
Plot
SPECTRE hijack American and Russian space capsules in a bid to start World War III for their clients, the Red Chinese.
Bond’s Women
- Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama)
- Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi)
- Ling (Tsai Chin)
Bond’s Enemies
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence)
- Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada)
- Helga Brandt (Karin Dor)
- Hans (Ron Rich)
Bond’s Allies
- Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba)
- Henderson (Charles Gray)
- ‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
- Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
- ‘Q’ (Desmond Llewelyn)
Bond’s Car Toyota 2000GT (not his, and driven by Aki)
Bond’s Gadget
‘Little Nellie’ autogyro: armed with two forward-firing synchronised machine guns, forward-firing rocket launchers, rear-firing flame guns, heat-seeking air-to-air missiles, smoke ejectors, aerial mines and helmet camera.
Main Title Music ‘You Only Live Twice’ sung by Nancy Sinatra
End Title Music ‘You Only Live Twice’ sung by Nancy Sinatra
Music Score John Barry
Production Design Ken Adam
Second Unit Director Peter Hunt
Main Titles Designer Maurice Binder
Screenplay Roald Dahl
Editor Thelma Connell
Director Lewis Gilbert
Producers *Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere
Filming Locations
- Pinewood Studios, England
- Akime, Japan (fishing village)
- Bahamas (underwater scenes)
- Gibraltar (Destroyer HMS Tenby (F-65) used for Bond’s burial-at-sea)
- Hong Kong, China
- Japan
- Kobe, Japan
- Spain (helicopter battle)
- Tokyo, Japan
Budget $9.5 million
Worldwide Box Office $111.6 million
Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted $603 million
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