391 You Only Live Twice (1967)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
391 You Only Live Twice (1967)
- The budget was the then astronomic sum of $9,500,000 ($1,000,000 of
of which was spent by 'Ken Adam' (qv) in his crater set).
- For the first time the story of a 007 film bears little resemblance to
the novel it is based on.
- The face of Ernst Blofeld is revealed for the first time (in the guise
of 'Donald Pleasence' (qv)).
- The female leads 'Mie Hama' (qv) and 'Akiko Wakabayashi' (qv) both appeared
in "King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)" (qv).
- Whilst in Japan, 'Sean Connery' (qv) and his wife are hounded by the
international press. During news conferences the press insisted on referring
to Connery as James Bond. The last straw comes when local newsmen attempted
to photograph him in a rest room. To ease the tension the producers
remove his contractual obligation to do one more 007 movie, despite being
offerred $1 million.
- The book title comes from a 17 century poem by Japanese poet Basho, it reads
``You only live twice / Once when you are born / And once when you look death
in the face''.
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