По каким-то причинам мне не хотелось смотреть этот фильм.
Может потому, что это был "последний фильм" Шона Коннери.
И сейчас мне как-то грустно отпускать его.
В кавычках "последний"потому, что он Шон вернется еще в одном официальном и одном неофициальном фильме.

И вот теперь, всё таки посмотрев фильм, получается, что пока это моя самая любимая часть с Шоном!
Удивительно! Начиная с отличного названия и заканчивая, традиционно прекрасной съемкой.
Футуристические декорации, вместе с японскими интерьерами захватывают дух!
Заглавная песня Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice красивая и спокойная, тем мне и нравится.
Экшн-сцены также смотрятся более интересно. Всякие ниндзя там.
Шон великолепен!
Азиатские девушки Бонда тоже очень понравились.

Ахах, наверное я сделала ошибку, посмотрев перед этим фильмом, фильмы про Остина Пауэрса и Доктора Зло.
Смотря первые кадры босса СПЕКТРа с поглаживанием кошки, я невольно посмеивалась.
Но образ "доктора зло" - Блофельда действительно интересный, хоть пока не до конца понятный для меня.
Ну и про Космос было смотреть немного интереснее, чем про атомные бомбы.

А вообще наверное благодаря японской культуре фильм кажется чуть более утонченным.



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The title of "You Only Live Twice" comes from a haiku (or poem) included in the Ian Fleming novel
on which the film is based. It goes: "You only live twice. Once when you are born.
And once when you look death in the face."

While scouting for locations in Japan, the chief production team was nearly killed.
On 5 March 1966, Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, Director Lewis Gilbert,
Cinematographer Freddie Young and Production Designer Ken Adam were booked to leave Japan
on BOAC flight 911 departing Tokyo for Hong Kong and London.
Two hours before their Boeing 707 flight departed, the team were invited to an unexpected ninja demonstration
and so missed their plane. Their flight took off as scheduled and twenty five minutes after take-off the plane disintegrated over Mt Fuji, killing everybody on board.
The incident brought with it an unsettling reality to the meaning of the title "You Only Live Twice".

First film to show James Bond in his Royal Navy uniform and to clearly indicate that he holds the rank of Commander.

Much of the story structure of this film would be re-used extensively in The Spy Who Loved Me as well
as Moonraker and then again for Tomorrow Never Dies.

Actor Tetsurô Tanba (Tanaka) later became a religious leader in Japan.

Director Lewis Gilbert originally turned down the directing job on this movie.

After it was discovered that Mie Hama playing Kissy Suzuki couldn't swim, Sean Connery's then wife,
actress Diane Cilento, doubled for her in her swimming scenes wearing a black wig.

Charles Gray (Henderson) would later play Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever.

The novel of "You Only Live Twice" was the last Ian Fleming James Bond novel published during his lifetime.
Released on 16 March 1964, it was the twelfth novel in the series.
For the first time in the James Bond film series, the screen story bore little resemblance to the source novel.
Some characters and the Japanese setting remain intact, as do several minor details
(the oubliette, and the man wearing a face mask, etc.), but the two stories are radically different.

James Bond participates in a Japanese wedding ceremony in the film.
Mercifully, he uses a false name, otherwise this would mean he would have been still married
under Japanese law when he wed Tracy di Vincenzo in the next film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Tsai Chin, who played Bond's playmate in the opening pre-credit sequence, returned to the Bond series
nearly 40 years later when she played one of the players in Le Chiffre's big poker match in Casino Royale.

The face of Ernst Stavro Blofeld is shown for the first time in a movie.
Of all the many actors who have played Blofeld, it is the interpretation by Donald Pleasence in this film
which is the source for the Mike Myers parody of the character as Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movie spoofs.
Blofeld appeared in later Bond movies, played by a different actor each time.

Bond producer Barbara Broccoli grew up in the behind-the-scenes world of James Bond
and as a child during location shooting in Japan for this movie she caught a fever from the Japanese custom
of sleeping on the floor. James Bond star Sean Connery's star status provided him with a comfortable bed
and he generously relinquished it so she could properly fight her illness.

While in Japan, Sean Connery and his wife Diane Cilento were hounded by the international press.
During news conferences the press insisted on referring to Connery as James Bond.
Local newsmen attempted to photograph him in a rest room.
Thirty extra private security guards were hired to combat the excess noise and hindrance but even the guards started to take photos.
Connery was allegedly photographed on a toilet and the picture published in a Tokyo newspaper.
Halfway through filming, Connery announced he would not be returning as James Bond.
To ease the tension the producers removed his contractual obligation to do one more 007 movie,
despite being offered $1 million. After the film wrapped, Connery was reportedly asked
whether he found Japanese women attractive to which he allegedly replied, "No," causing many Japanese to call him bad names.
This faux pas turned out to be based on a mistranslation on a day when Connery was exhausted after an intensive day's filming.
Connery didn't go out of his way to be too personable with the interviewer who was aghast
that the actor showed up in a casual T-shirt with baggy trousers and sandals, and not wearing a toupee.
"Is this how James Bond dresses?" he asked, to which Connery replied tersely
"I'm not James Bond, I'm Sean Connery, a man who likes to dress comfortably."

Out of simple courtesy on Bond's part, this is the only film in which he accepts a Martini (from Henderson)
that is stirred, not shaken. This is an intentional joke by the producers, not a mistake by either of the actors.

Peter R. Hunt was the original editor. The producers were not happy with the film, and pleaded with Hunt to return as editor.
He did this on the condition that he could direct the next Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

The rocket pistol, and cigarette rocket, were real-life weapons that were featured after the manufacturer paid for the product placement.
It was hoped they would become standard military and intelligence equipment; however, they proved
to be too expensive (ammunition cost three times as much as normal ammo), clumsy
(useless at any distance under 15 yards), and unreliable (horribly inaccurate and tended to start fires), and ceased production in 1969.

As this was anticipated to be Sean Connery's last appearance as Bond, publicity material released
in advance of the movie announced Bond would be killed, married and become Japanese.
While these events were portrayed in the film, they were actually ruses as part of Bond's undercover activities.

In Sept. 1972, United Artists was widely exhibiting this film on a double bill with Thunderball with the tag line
"The 2 Biggest Bonds of All".