Showing posts with label 1967. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1967. Show all posts

Saturday, November 14, 2015

You Only Live Twice (1967)


"Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond"


Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Produced by Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman
Screenplay by Roald Dahl
Story by Harold Jack Bloom (Additional Story Material)
Based on "You Only Live Twice" by Ian Fleming
Starring: Sean Connery, Mie Hama, Donald Pleasence, Akiko Wakabayashi
Music by John Barry
Cinematography: Freddie Young
Edited by Peter R. Hunt
Production company: Eon Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date: 13 June 1967 (United Kingdom)
Running time: 117 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: $10.3 million
Box office: $111.6 million


"You Only Live Twice" is an action adventure thriller film directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by Roald Dahl, based on "You Only Live Twice" by Ian Fleming. It's the fifth installment of the "James Bond" film series which follows Secret Agent James Bond and the Japanese secret service ninja force who must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.