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You Only Live Twice (Original title)
Dates: 1967 (Copyright), 12 June 1967 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Lewis Gilbert

Synopsis: James Bond fakes his own death and goes to Japan in disguise to discover who is launching rockets that are destroying Russian and American spaceships.

Genres:
Action and Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Subjects:
Espionage, Volcanoes, Spacecraft, Japan
Releases
Date: 12 June 1967Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 116 mins Length: 10433 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (114)
©: Danjaq S.A., An Eon production: Eon Productions, Released thru: United Artists, Presented by/Produced by: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli, Production Executive: Stanley Sopel, Production Supervisor: David Middlemas, Supervising Accountant: W.F. Eggleden, Studio Accountant: Len Barnard, Assistant Accountant: Brian Taylor, G.K. Cooper, Accounts Secretary: Gene Towlson, Location Manager: Robert Watts, Production Secretary: Golda Offenheim, Secretary to Harry Saltzman: Francine Taylor, Secretary to Albert R. Broccoli: Margaret Curtis, Secretary to Stanley Sopel: Diana Moore, Second Unit Director: Peter Hunt, Assistant Director: William P. Cartlidge, 2nd Assistant Director: Terry Churcher, Richard Jenkins, 3rd Assistant Director: William Graf Jr, 2nd Unit Assistant Director: John Quested, Continuity: Angela Martelli, 2nd Unit Continuity: Kay Rawlings, Casting Director: Weston Drury Jr, Location Casting Director: Harvey Woods, Screenplay by: Roald Dahl, Additional Story Material by: Harold Jack Bloom, Above the Title Credit [for Novel]: Ian Fleming, Director of Photography: Freddie Young, Second Unit Cameraman: Bob Huke, Aerial Unit Cameraman: John Jordan, Underwater Cameraman: Lamar Boren, Camera Operator: Ernie Day, 2nd Unit Camera Operator: Peter Hurst, Focus Puller: Ken Withers, 2nd Unit Focus Puller: Simon Ransley, Clapper Loader: Michael Messenger, 2nd Unit Clapper Loader: Danny Shelmerdine, Electrical Supervisor: Reg Blackburn, Chief Electrician: Frank Buck, 2nd Unit Grip: George Beavis, Standby Grip: Ted Lockhart, Stills Photographer: Joe Pearce, Matte Photography: Martin Shortall, Matte Artist: Cliff Culley, Special Effects: John Stears, Special Effects Assistant: Jimmy Snow, Joe Fitt, Nautical Effects Rigger: Charles Dodds, Effects Engineer: Bert Luxford, Supervising Editor: Peter Hunt, Editor: Thelma Connell, Assembly Editor: Robert Richardson, [Assistant Editor]: Stephen Warwick, Assistant Editor: Richard Dobson, Assembly Editor: Graham Shipman, Production Designed by: Ken Adam, Art Director: Harry Pottle, Assistant Art Director: Michael White, Peter Lamont, Set Decorator: David ffolkes, Chief Draughtsman: Roy Dorman, Draughtsman: Fred Hole, Ron Benton, Junior Draughtsman: Maggie Pinhorn, Sketch Artist: Robert Laing, Prop Buyer: Ron Quelch, John Biggs, Construction Manager: Ronnie Udell, Wardrobe Mistress: Eileen Sullivan, Wardrobe Master: Brian Owen-Smith, Wardrobe Assistant: Terry Young, 2nd Unit Wardrobe: Roy Ponting, Make-up: Basil Newall, Make-up: Paul Rabiger, Hairdresser: Eileen Warwick, Main Title Designed by: Maurice Binder, Colour by: Technicolor, Filmed in: Panavision, Music Composed,Conducted and Arranged by: John Barry, Title Song Sung by: Nancy Sinatra, The "James Bond" Theme Written by: Monty Norman, Title Song Lyrics by: Leslie Bricusse, Sound Recordist: John Mitchell, Gordon Mccallum, Sound Camera Operator: Ron Butcher, Boom Operator: Keith Pamplin, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Dubbing Editor: Norman Wanstall, Harry Miller, Action Sequences by: Bob Simmons, Stunts: Bob Simmons, Stunts: Vic Armstrong, Stunts: Richard Graydon, Stunts: Doug Robinson, Stunts: Gordon Petrie, Stunts: Spencer Churchill, Stunts: Mick Dillon, Stunts: Micky Baker, Military Liaison: Charles Rouchand, Toho Studios Technical Adviser: Kikumaru Okuda, [Aviation Services]: David Michael Kay, Producers Gratefully Acknowledge...: Ministry of Defence, Dialogue Coach: Helen Goss, Assistant Dialogue Coach: Mark Pollard, US Publicist: Tom Carlile, UK Publicist: Roy Macgregor, Secretary to Tom Carlile: Evelyn Purcell, Secretary to Roy MacGregor: Lorraine Fennell, Made at: Pinewood Studios, Producers Acknowledge [Studio]: Toho Studios
Cast (47)
Sean Connery (James Bond), Akiko Wakabayashi (Aki), Tetsuro Tamba (Tiger Tanaka), Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki), Teru Shimada (Osato), Karin Dor (Helga Brandt), Lois Maxwell (Miss Moneypenny), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Charles Gray (Henderson), Bernard Lee (M), Donald Pleasence (Ernst Stavro Blofeld), Tsai Chin (Ling, Chinese girl in Hong Kong), Peter Fanene Maivia (car driver), Burt Kwouk (SPECTRE No 3), Michael Chow (SPECTRE No 4), Ronald Rich (Blofeld's bodyguard), Jeanne Roland (Bond's masseuse), David Toguri (assassin, bedroom), John Stone (submarine captain), Norman Jones, Paul Carson (astronaut, 1st US spacecraft), Laurence Herder, Richard Graydon (astronaut, Russian spacecraft), Bill Mitchell, George Roubicek (astronaut, 2nd US spacecraft), Ed Bishop ([Hawaii radio operator]), Shane Rimmer ([Hawaii controller]), Burnell Tucker ([Hawaii control room technician]), George Murcell ([Russian envoy]), Robin Bailey ([British envoy]), David Bauer ([American envoy]), Patrick Jordan ([1st Hong Kong inspector]), Anthony Ainley ([2nd Hong Kong inspector]), Basil Moss ([lieutenant commander, submarine]), Richard Marner ([Russian controller]), Alex Marchevsky ([Russian radio operator]), Alexander Knox ([Secretary of Defense]), William Sylvester ([presidential aide]), Robert Hutton ([army commander in chief]), Bill Nagy ([air corps commander in chief]), David Healy ([Houston controller]), Michael Poole, Ian Flintoff, Jeffrey Wickham ([Russian control room technician]), Jan Werich ([Ernst Blofeld - replaced after 1 week]), Robert Rietti ([voice of Tiger Tanaka/SPECTRE No 3]), Nikki van der Zyl ([voice of Kissy Suzuki])