You Only Live Twice
June 13, 1967 in theaters
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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"You only live twice. Once when you are born. And once when you look death in the face."
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The volcano lair set was the largest ever constructed for any film at the time -- it cost over $1 million and took over 14 months to build.
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The film where the Bond formula began to eat itself -- the volcano lair, the ninja training camp, the villain reveal -- and the self-parody was still far enough away to feel fresh. The Japan locations are genuinely used rather than merely visited, and the production design is extraordinary for its era. The strain of the formula occasionally shows. A film that pushed the formula to its logical extreme before the formula needed refreshing.
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