James Bond, You Only Live Twice. Declassification of the 5th James Bond movie including opening, title song, credits, villains, girls, gadgets, chases, binds, one-liners, and locations.

Opening

• U.S. spacecraft is hijacked in orbit by unidentified spacecraft with nose that opens to swallow other craft. Beginning the case in Hong Kong, Bond is enclosed in Murphy bed by Ling and seemingly machine-gunned to death

Title Song/Credits

• "You Only Live Twice" by Nancy Sinatra
• naked silhouetted Japanese women and umbrella overlaying flowing lava background

Villains

• Ernst Stavro Blofeld, SPECTRE agent #1 with scar down right side of face petting white cat on lap set on hijacking U.S. and Russian spaceships to start a nuclear war between the two superpowers (Donald Pleasence)
• Mr. Osato, head of Osato Chemical & Engineering Co. (Teru Shimada)
• Helga Brandt, Osato's secretary and SPECTRE agent #11 (Karin Dor)
• Hans, Blofeld's bodyguard (Ronald Rich)

Girls

• Kissy Suzuki, Bond's wife for his cover as a married Japanese man (Mie Hama)
• Aki, Bond's Japanese Secret Service safeguard in Tokyo (Akiko Wakabayashi)
• Helga Brandt, Osato's secretary and SPECTRE agent #11 (Karin Dor)
• Ling, Chinese girl (Tsai Chin)
• four spa technicians (Jeanne Roland, Mai Ling, Yee-Wah Yang, Yasuko Nagazumi)

Gadgets

• spacecraft with opening nose for swallowing other spacecraft
• Blofeld's headquarters built inside an inactive volcano with interior heliport, rocket launchpad and retracting roof made to look like a crater lake
• Little Nellie, portable kit helicopter with machine guns, rocket launchers, heat-seeking missiles, aerial mines, flame guns, smoke ejectors and camera helmet
• helicopter suspending large magnet
• monorail tram
• trap-door walkway over pirana pit
• trap-door hallway with chute to Tanaka's headquarters
• exploding lipstick
• miniature rocket cigarette
• rocket guns with jet-propelled bullets
• switchblade rod of bamboo
• hand and kneepad magnets for scaling metal wall
• pocket-sized safe-cracker
• desk that can x-ray person sitting on other side of it
• purse microphone

Chases

• Little Nellie kit helicopter chased by four SPECTRE helicopters, with one getting it with the flame gun, one with the aerial mines, one with a rocket and one with the heat-seeking missiles
• Toyota 2000 GT convertible chased by car through streets of Tokyo, ending in chase car being lifted by a large magnet suspended from a helicopter and dropped into the ocean
• chased on foot on rooftop of shipping warehouse ending in jumps down levels onto cargo pads

Binds

• enclosed in Murphy bed by Ling, machine-gunned seemingly to death, wrapped like a mummy and sent to the ocean floor at his burial at sea, recovered by two divers, brought aboard British submarine and unwrapped, revealing an air mask and the fact that his death was staged to throw the enemy off his trail
• with Henderson, his contact in Tokyo, stabbed in the back just before revealing who he thinks is behind the hijacking and in a knife fight with Henderson's murderer, breaks the murderer's neck and assumes his identity to be transported in getaway car to Osato Chemical & Engineering Co.
• being attacked with a sword by heavy, knocks him unconscious by hitting him in the back of the head with a statue
• about to be killed in a drive-by shooting, alerted by Aki to get down and transported away in her convertible
• trapped in a plummeting unpiloted plane after Helga jumps out with a parachute, frees his hands, jumps into the cockpit and controls the plane enough to make a crash landing - runs to safety just before plane explodes
• with assassin dripping poison down a string over his mouth while he sleeps, rolls over with Aki rolling over also and poison drips onto Aki's mouth instead
• when assassin undercover as part of his Ninja training attacks him with a switchblade rod of bamboo, sidesteps attack, takes bamboo and stabs and kills his attacker
• with his cover as an astronaut blown and captured by Blofeld, requests a cigarette and uses rocket cigarette to create a disturbance
• about to be shot by Blofeld, Tanaka throws Ninja star into Blofeld's wrist, knocking his aim off target
• being shot at by guard, throws Ninja star into his chest and kills him
• in fist fight with Hans on walkway, ducks his punch and hoists him up and over his head into pirana pit
• with Blofeld's spacecraft about to hijack a second U.S. spacecraft, gets to control room in time to press craft destruct button
• with Blofeld self-destructing his headquarters and causing a volcanic eruption, swims to safety out cave tributary

One-liners

• "Why do Chinese girls taste different from all other girls?" to Ling after kissing her
• "Well, we corpses have absolutely no sense of time," to Miss Moneypenny after she tells him he's late as usual, even to his own funeral
• "Well, I like the plumbing," to Tanaka when offered a bath by four lovely bathers
• "I might just retire to here," when told by Tanaka that in Japan men always come first and women come second
• "Just a drop in the ocean," when asked by Tanaka how that is for Japanese efficiency after disposing of chase car with magnet
• "Well, enjoy yourself," to Helga's "I've got you now"
• "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" to Helga after she threatens to torture him with a dermatome
• "Ah, the things I do for England," after convincing Helga to let him go and cutting her shoulder straps with the dermatome
• "You sound like a commercial," to Tanaka's "It can save your life, this cigarette"
• "Why don't you just dye the parts that show?" as Tanaka's spa technicians give him a makeover to look Japanese
• "Yes, this is my second life," to Blofeld's "They told me you were assassinated in Hong Kong"
• "Bon appetit," to pirana as they are snacking on Hans
• "Now, about that honeymoon," to Kissy just before kissing her on the life raft

Locations

• Japan

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