

You Only Live Twice
...and "twice" is the only way to live!
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $9.5M
- Box office
- $111.6M
- Language
- English
- island
- japan
- assassin
- london, england
- helicopter
- assassination
- based on novel or book
- nasa
- england
- funeral
- vulkan
- war ship
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG13 Jun 1967
- PhysicalPGDVD17 Oct 2000
United KingdomGB
- PremierePGLondon12 Jun 1967
- TheatricalPG13 Jun 1967
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG14 Dec 1967
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A13 Jun 1967
BrazilBR
- Theatrical142 Oct 1967
CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTT15+27 Apr 2010
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical711 Sept 1967
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1615 Sept 1967
FranceFR
- Theatrical1220 Sept 1967
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1214 Sept 1967
- Physical12FSK-Neubewertung vom 23.11.20048 Dec 2004
GreeceGR
- Theatrical20 Sept 1967
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG4 Aug 1967
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You Only Live Twice was released on 13 June 1967.
Audience reviews
6- W8/10
Wuchak
5/26/2021
_**James goes to Japan**_ "You Only Live Twice" (1967) takes agent 007 to Japan where he seeks the secret SPECTRE installation responsible for literally stealing space capsules and threatening war between the USA and USSR. This 5th installment in the franchise upped the ante with the action & spy-stuff and is more dynamic than the previous ones. Speaking of the spy aspects, they're often over-the-top here to th…
- G3/10
GenerationofSwine
1/11/2023
Yeah... forgotten isn't it? Maybe it's forgotten because they try and turn Sean Connery into a Japanese man to hide him and he just ends up looking like a harry chested Leonard Nimoy. Or maybe it's forgotten because little choppers are more Roger Moore than Sean Connery. Whatever the case, it starts off pretty strong and then falls apart at the end. The first half of the movie is Connery Bond, and in places …
- D9/10
drystyx
4/4/2023
This is in the hay day of 007 films. Made when 007 was exciting and entertaining. That gets a lot of hate from people with Generation Xenophobe ideology. But it's totally exciting. Here, we get almost all the venues. We even get outer space. We get super beautiful scenery that pretty much make this one of the great Bond films, secure at number 5 in my opinion. Most of this is set in Japan, and much of it is film…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/30/2024
This time, "007" (Sean Connery) has to investigate some mysterious goings on in outer space as first an American, then a Soviet rocket disappear. Naturally, they blame one another but "M" (Bernard Lee) has an inkling that Japan might be the source of the mischief and so our suave and debonair "Mr. Bond" is duly despatched. Allied with their spy chief "Tiger" (Tetsurô Tanba) who has his own underground train - he is s…
- T8/10
tmdb93836550
11/23/2024
An improvement over Thunderball but still not as good as the original 3 Connery films, it is still very iconic despite it only just having a reappraisal.
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