You Only Live Twice - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "You Only Live Twice"

You Only Live Twice (1967)

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Actors and characters

ABC You Only Live Twice 1979 opening edit

English

0:51

You Only Live Twice (1967) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

English

3:17

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE | Helga Brandt abandons Bond mid-air

English

1:22

Джеймс Бонд 007: Живешь только дважды, Шон Коннери, 1967 - Трейлер субтитры

Pусский

3:17

Живешь Только Дважды (с субтитрами)

Pусский

2:10

What's left behind the scenes

In this film, we see Blofeld's face for the first time.
Charles Gray, who played Henderson, played Blofeld in the film 'Diamonds Are Forever'.
Nancy Sinatra became the first non-British performer of the title song in the James Bond films.
A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, written in 1964.
This is the penultimate official James Bond film in Sean Connery's career.
The American spacecraft shown in the film are very similar to Gemini, which actively made orbital flights in 1965-66. In particular, spacewalks were carried out as part of this program.
The launch of the Soviet rocket shown in the film was certainly not from Soviet newsreels. In fact, it is the launch of the American Titan II GLV launch vehicle, which was used to launch Gemini spacecraft into orbit. Judging by the surroundings and the palm trees in the foreground, the launch was carried out from launch complexes SLC-40 or SLC-41, located at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
In the scene where Bond and his wife walk to the volcano's crater, she suddenly appears wearing shoes. Before that, they swam out of the cave, and she had no shoes on.
Relations between Sean Connery (who played agent 007 James Bond) and the producers (Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Stanley Sopel, Terence Young) deteriorated to the point that he refused to act if they were present on set.
While scouting locations in Japan, the filmmakers narrowly avoided death in a plane crash. On March 5, 1966, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, director Lewis Gilbert, cinematographer Freddie Young, and production designer Ken Adam were about to board a 'Boeing 707' flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong and then on to London, but they happened to miss the flight. The plane took off on schedule, but 25 minutes later encountered turbulence over Mount Fuji and broke apart in the air. All passengers and crew members perished.
The film differs so significantly from the novel—the literary source material—because screenwriter Roald Dahl strongly disliked Ian Fleming's book itself. He considered the 1964 novel to be the worst thing Fleming had ever written, calling it a “lecture on a trip to Japan.” Dahl had only six weeks to develop the initial screenplay, and he openly admitted he had no idea what Bond would do, so he decided to make the main plotlines similar to those in Terence Young’s 1962 film *Dr. No*, scripted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkeley Mather, Young, Wolf Mankowitz, and, of course, Ian Fleming himself.
The film's editing was handled by Thelma Connell, who had been the editor for all of director Lewis Gilbert’s films. Her cut ran almost three hours, but it was thoroughly disliked by audiences at preview screenings, and Peter R. Hunt was asked to redo it. His version was successful, and in the next Bond film—the 1969 *On Her Majesty’s Secret Service* starring George Lazenby as Agent 007—Hunt was already working as the director.
Before the credits roll, viewers see a Soviet radar station, inside which an emergency conference of representatives from the superpowers is taking place. This scene was filmed in Norway. The Norwegian army’s radar installation is still operational today.
It turned out that Mie Hama, the actress playing Kissy, couldn’t swim, and in the relevant scenes she was replaced by Sean Connery’s then-wife, actress Diane Cilento, who wore a black wig for the shoot.
The next Bond film was supposed to be *On Her Majesty’s Secret Service*, but filming at the planned locations in Switzerland proved impossible due to an unusually cold summer, and it was decided to film *You Only Live Twice* instead.
Authentic footage of a Gemini spacecraft launch (the second American program of manned spaceflights) was used for the scenes depicting the launch of the Jupiter spacecraft. This program involved testing spacewalks, docking systems, orbital maneuvering, altitude changes, and much else necessary for the Apollo program, whose first manned flight was planned for 1968. Ironically, the name 'Gemini' ('twins' in English) in the film is given to a Soviet spacecraft, and its outlines are based on mistaken British perceptions of what the Vostok and Voskhod series of spacecraft looked like. Nothing was known about their actual appearance until 1967, when work on the film was already completed.
It is said that Blofeld's white cat (played by actor Donald Pleasence as Bond's perennial enemy) was frightened by the noise on set during the filming of the finale and ran away. The animal was found only several days later. Footage of the frightened cat made it into the film – in the scene where protective shutters are closed in the bunker.
Before settling on a prosthetic scar across his face, Donald Pleasence suggested that his character (playing Blofeld) have a hump, a noticeable limp, a beard, or only one functioning arm. Ultimately, a disfiguring facial scar was chosen. The scar glued to his face covered one eye, and the actor found this extremely uncomfortable.
In Fleming's novel, Blofeld's hideout is a castle on the coast. Production designer Ken Adam discovered that this was completely impossible: due to a fear of hurricanes, the Japanese have never built castles directly on the coast throughout history. Therefore, in the film, Blofeld's hideout is located in the crater of a supposedly extinct volcano.
Before offering the role of Blofeld to Donald Pleasence, it was offered to several other actors, but all of them were busy and unable to participate in the filming. Initially, producer Harry Saltzman offered the role to Jan Werich, a Czech theater and film actor, but after just a week of filming, it was decided that his Blofeld looked too much like Santa Claus, and another actor had to be found.

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