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6	'''[[center: [- [[Characters/JamesBond Main Character Index]] -]]]'''
7	----
8	Character sheet for the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''.
9	----
10	[[foldercontrol]]
11
12	!![=MI6=]
13
14	* [[Characters/JamesBondTheCharacter James Bond]]
15	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters M]]
16	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Moneypenny]]
17	* [[Characters/JamesBondMajorRecurringCharacters Q]]
18
19	!!Bond's Allies
20
21	[[folder:Tanaka]]
22	!!"Tiger" Tanaka
23	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tanaka.png]]
24	[[caption-width-right:300: ''"Rule number one: never do anything yourself when someone else can do it for you."'']]
25	!!!'''Played by:''' Tetsurō Tamba (丹波哲郎)
26
27	The head of the Japanese secret service.
28	----
29	* AdaptationalHeroism: In the novel, Tanaka is essentially a proudly Axis gangster who ended up on the "right" side as a quirk of post-War politics. The less savory aspects of his character are not seen in the film, where he is the genuinely friendly and heroic head of a Japanese secret service.
30	* BadassInANiceSuit: He wears a suit when meeting Bond for the first time.
31	* {{Codename}}: "Tiger" of course and the enemies of Japan and its allies about to be mauled by him.
32	* CoolTrain: He has his own private underground train on a railroad beneath Tokyo. There's a lounge living room onboard, complete with a bar ("Sorry, ''no'' Siamese vodka!"), and a high-tech office offering full communication, encryption and stenographic services, as well as a fully equipped audio-visual suite that can display any material at a command -- even micro-dots.
33	* CrazyPrepared: By far the most competent and well-equipped ally Bond has ever met, what with sending a helicopter equipped with a giant electromagnet to get rid of a car that was chasing Aki and Bond.
34	* FrontlineGeneral: He personally leads his ninjas during the assault on Blofeld's volcano base in the climax.
35	* GadgeteerGenius: He can also be considered as the Japanese equivalent of Q.
36	* GratuitousNinja:
37	-->'''Bond:''' Do you have any commandos here?\
38	'''Tanaka:''' I have much, much better. Ninjas.
39	* HomeBase: A hidden high tech office dedicated to "receive" his guests (after said guests fall through a funnel), a [[CoolTrain private underground train]] and also a Japanese castle.
40	* JapanesePoliteness: He treats Bond with a bath, complete with [[WalkingSwimsuitScene bikini-clad]] servants.
41	* TheKindnapper: Bond is lured to him by Aki, using a TrapDoor.
42	* MajoredInWesternHypocrisy: The novel reveals that he studied at Oxford and later used it as a pretext to spy on the Brits.
43	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: "In Japan, men come first. Women come second."
44	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He fully backs Bond up for the duration of the mission.
45	* SpecialPersonNormalName: ''Tanaka'' is one of the most common Japanese family names, and the one typically used as shorthand for "Mr. Average Japanese Citizen" (as Americans might use "Mr. John Smith" or the like). Using it for a mysterious chief of intelligence touches on OminousMundanity.
46	* TheSpymaster: He is the head of Japan's secret service. He is considered so important that he has his own subway system in Tokyo to keep him protected in the city.
47	* SupportingLeader: Despite being basically the Japanese equivalent of M, he still personally leads the raid into SPECTRE's base.
48	[[/folder]]
49
50	[[folder:Aki]]
51	!!Aki
52	[[quoteright:267:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Akiko_wakabayashi_87.jpg]]
53	[[caption-width-right:267: ''"I think I will very much enjoy serving under you."'']]
54	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/AkikoWakabayashi (若林映子)
55
56	An agent of the Japanese secret service. She is Bond's first contact in Japan and assists him.
57	----
58	* ActionGirl: For her limited screen time, she manages to pull quite the nice car stunts.
59	* BadassDriver: She has downright ''mean'' driving skills, shown for example when Bond is escaping from the Osato Chemicals building.
60	* BigDamnHeroes: Comes to save Bond twice.
61	* CoolCar: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_2000GT Toyota 2000GT]].
62	* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Bond closes them soon after]].
63	* KidnappedByAnAlly: She lures Bond into what seems to be a trap... which is actually the way to bring him to meet Tanaka.
64	* MsFanservice: Gives Bond a massage while wearing nothing on her upper half except a small bra.
65	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Works alongside Bond for a little more than half of the film before she's killed by a SPECTRE assassin who was trying to kill Bond.]]
66	* SexySecretary: Described as being one to Tanaka by a ''Playboy'' review.
67	* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Little about this character is known before her death.]]
68	* YamatoNadeshiko: Is happy to "serve" Bond, both sexually and as his subordinate in the espionage profession. She also seems [[spoiler:to have died demurely, as though to have conveniently, if inadvertently, put herself out of the way [[DieForOurShip so Bond can be with an Ama girl]]]]
69	[[/folder]]
70
71	[[folder:Kissy Suzuki]]
72	!!Kissy Suzuki
73	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/James-Bond27_7957.jpg]]
74	[[caption-width-right:300: ''"No honeymoon. This is business."'']]
75	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MieHama (浜美枝)
76
77	One of the agents working for Tanaka, she is assigned to partner Bond after the death of Aki. She "marries" Bond in a mock [[WeddingsInJapan wedding ceremony]] as James goes undercover, posing as a Japanese fisherman. Bond and Kissy eventually find Blofeld's secret base and Kissy is sent to alert Tanaka. While swimming to her destination, she is pursued and fired upon by a SPECTRE helicopter, but her experience as a Ama diver[[note]](almost AlwaysFemale pearl fishers who are famous for their diving skills)[[/note]] enables her to dive underwater and stay there long enough to convince her pursuers that she drowned.
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79	* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The film omits her backstory as a failed actress in Hollywood.
80	* AdaptationalJobChange: In the novel, she's an Ama diving girl who is distantly related to one of Tanaka's agents and is therefore asked to assist Bond. In the film, she's an active agent.
81	* AllThereInTheScript: Kissy's name isn't mentioned in the movie.
82	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Never gets dirty scaling a volcano in a bikini.
83	* ChekhovsGun: The story establishes that she is a pearl diver as a cover. That professional skill, such as being able to hold her breath and stay underwater for an usually long period of time, proves vital to escape SPECTRE'S goons chasing her and alert Tanaka.
84	* DefrostingIceQueen: When Kissy meets Bond, she is initially serious and makes it clear that their marriage is only part of the mission. Obviously, it doesn't take long for Bond to seduce her and she becomes more friendly towards the end of the film.
85	* GirlOfTheWeek: The main Bond Girl of this film.
86	* HollywoodHomely: {{Invoked\|Trope}}. Tanaka claims this is the case, though it may just be to tease Bond.
87	* MsFanservice: Spending the entire climax in a bikini certainly counts her as one.
88	* {{Stripperiffic}}: The plot sure manages to leave her in that bikini in the climax.
89	* WalkingSwimsuitScene: After she and Bond set out to investigate SPECTRE's volcano lair, ''every'' scene of Kissy for the rest of the movie is a Walking Swimsuit Scene for her.
90	* WhenSheSmiles: Kissy starts up emphatically insisting that her fake marriage to Bond was strictly business and would not be consummated for their "honeymoon," but this being a Bond movie, she eventually lights up a beautiful smile at him.
91	* YamatoNadeshiko: In her first scene.
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	[[folder:Ling]]
95	!!Ling
96	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tsaiching_4116.png]]
97	[[caption-width-right:250: ''"Darling, I give you very best duck."'']]
98	!!!'''Played by:''' Tsai Ching (周采芹)
99
100	A Chinese woman seen in the pre-credit sequence. After being in bed with Bond, she presses a button on the wall flipping the bed into an upright position with Bond still on it. She then lets in a couple of gunmen who shoot at Bond. The killing, however, is staged.
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102	* AmbiguouslyEvil: She sets Bond up to be assassinated, but the killing is staged. Is she a DoubleAgent working against Bond, or is she working with [=MI6=] to fake his death?
103	* DragonLady: Despite her brief appearance, she hits all the check-boxes--an overtly sexual and seemingly [[DevilInPlainSight untrustworthy]] MysteriousWoman.
104	* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: Presumably Ling and the assassins are working for Red China, but it's never said.
105	* HoneyTrap: She has sex with Bond, then traps him in a Murphy bed and lets two Chinese agents into the room to empty their submachine guns into it.
106
107	[[/folder]]
108
109	!!SPECTRE
110
111	* [[Characters/JamesBondBlofeld SPECTRE Number One / Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]
112
113	[[folder:Osato]]
114	!!Mr. Osato
115	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/osato_charcoal_suit.jpg]]
116	[[caption-width-right:300: ''"I gave Number 11 the strictest orders to eliminate him."'']]
117	!!!'''Played by:''' Teru Shimada (島田テル)
118
119	A Japanese industrialist secretly allied with SPECTRE.
120	----
121	* AffablyEvil: When Bond goes to Osato Chemicals to meet Mr. Osato himself, masquerading as a potential new buyer, Osato humours Bond, but after their meeting, he orders his secretary, Helga Brandt, to have him killed. Cue assassins opening fire at Bond outside the building.
122	* BlofeldPloy: Happens twice to him. The first time, [[spoiler:it leads to Helga Brandt's execution]], the second time, Blofeld aims his gun straight at Bond, [[spoiler:before shooting Osato.]]
123	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The president of Osato Chemicals and an ally of SPECTRE.
124	* TheDragon: Of the "smart, detail-oriented administrator" type to Hans' "ferocious fighter" type, which makes Osato more of an...
125	* EvilGenius: He and his company were delivering elements for rocket fuel to Blofeld and SPECTRE.
126	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Osato looked spooked when [[spoiler:Blofeld kills Helga by tossing her into a [[SharkPool piranha-infested water pool]] for failing to kill 007.]]
127	* StraightEdgeEvil: Zig-zagged; he apparently likes to start the morning with champagne, though possibly out of some notion that it's good for you; however, out of a stated belief in "a healthy chest", he chides "Mr. Fisher" about his smoking habit.
128	* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:As seen in BlofeldPloy, Blofeld kills him for failing him so much after it looked like he was going to shoot Bond first.]]
129	[[/folder]]
130
131	[[folder:Helga Brandt]]
132	!!Helga Brandt
133	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/helga_brandt_2nd_profile.png]]
134	[[caption-width-right:300: ''"You should have killed him yourself. You had plenty of opportunities.''"]]
135	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/KarinDor
136
137	Osato's secretary and SPECTRE assassin, codename Number 11.
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139	* AlmightyJanitor: She plays Osato's secretary in the daylight, but not only is she a skilled assassin, she has a code number and Osato doesn't, which implies she's on the board and outranks him.
140	* EvilAllAlong: Bond thinks that he has managed to convince Brandt to free him and she flies Bond to Tokyo, but, en route, she sets off a flare in the plane and bails out, intending to kill him in the plane crash. Bond manages to land the crashing plane and escapes.
141	* EvilRedhead: A member of SPECTRE with red hair. Weirdly enough, her actress said the producers were looking for a blue-eyed blonde.
142	* {{Expy}}: Of Fiona Volpe from ''Film/{{Thunderball}}''.
143	* FedToTheBeast: [[spoiler:Her punishment for not killing Bond is being fed to Blofeld's piranhas.]]
144	* HighHeelFaceTurn: Subverted. She sleeps with Bond, but doesn't join him. [[spoiler:She still gets executed for not eliminating Bond.]]
145	* MsFanservice: In her first scene, she wears [[https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/You-Only-Live-Twice/images/You-Only-Live-Twice-277.jpg a form-fitting blouse]] to SexySweaterGirl-levels. "Healthy chest," indeed.
146	* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:When she gets called on the carpet for failing to kill Bond, she tries to shift the blame to Osato. Blofeld is not amused]].
147	* SexySecretary: She poses as Osato's secretary.
148	* TortureTechnician: Implied when she threatens Bond with surgical knives. She's not very competent around Bond, though.
149	* TheVamp: She seduces Bond and makes him believe that she jumped to his side, but it's really an attempt to kill him.
150	* YouHaveFailedMe: [[spoiler:She gets fed to piranhas by Blofeld for her failure.]]
151	[[/folder]]
152
153	[[folder:Hans]]
154	!!Hans
155	[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hans_ronald_rich___profile.jpg]]
156	!!!'''Played by:''' Ronald Rich
157
158	Blofeld's personal bodyguard.
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160	* TheBrute: A ferocious fighter.
161	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:He's thrown into Blofeld's piranha pool and eaten alive.]]
162	* TheDragon: Of the "ferocious fighter" type to Mr. Osato's "smart, detail-oriented administrator" type.
163	* EvilWearsBlack: Wears a black turtleneck and slacks combo.
164	* FedToTheBeast: [[spoiler:Bond throws him into the pirahna pool.]]
165	-->[[spoiler:'''Bond:''' Bon appétit!]]
166	* GiantMook: He's a good head taller than Bond and easily [[NoSell No Sells]] most of Bond's punches. Bond is still able to throw him a few times using leverage, which is also ultimately how he beats him, by using an Aikido toss to dunk him in a pool of piranhas.
167	* OnlyOneName: Only called "Hans" and is also the only name with which the actor is credited.
168	* SharkPool: Takes care of Blofeld's [[PiranhaProblem piranha pool]], [[spoiler:which claims his life in the end]].
169	* UndyingLoyalty: Amidst all the chaos in SPECTRE's lair during the climax after Blofeld activates the self-destruct, he still makes sure to stay behind and cover Blofeld's retreat.
170	* TheVoiceless: [[spoiler:Only speaks during his final scene, with his last words being "No!"]]
171	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Blofeld entrusts him with the key to the self-destruct for Bird One.
172	* YouShallNotPass: He covers Blofeld's retreat.
173	[[/folder]]
174
175	[[folder:The Driver]]
176	!!The Driver
177	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bond-driver_9121.jpg]]
178	!!!'''Played by:''' Peter Fanene Maivia
179
180	A henchman working for Osato. Bond kills him after a brief but tough fight.
181	----
182	* AxCrazy: He looks quite crazy during his fight with Bond.
183	* TheBrute: Maybe even more than Hans.
184	* GiantMook: He's ''really'' burly. It says something that it took to hit him with a sofa ''and'' a statue to put him down for good.
185	* KatanasAreJustBetter: At one point during his fight with Bond, he uses a katana.
186	* MadeOfIron: At least it seems so until Bond knocks him dead with a statue.
187	* SlasherSmile: When he grabs the katana.
188	* StoutStrength: Peter Maivia weighted 275 lbs.
189	* WrestlerInAllOfUs: CastTheExpert. The actor/stuntman is none other than [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]]'s grandpa, and a wrestler himself. For more modern fans, he would be considered one of the founding members, along with blood brother Amituanaʻi Anoaʻi, of the Samoan family of wrestlers most notably associated with The Bloodline.
190	[[/folder]]
191
192	!!Other Characters
193
194	[[folder:Dikko Henderson]]
195	!!Richard Lovelace "Dikko" Henderson
196	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dikko_henderson_charles_gray___profile.png]]
197	[[caption-width-right:300: ''"That was stirred, not shaken? I hope I got it right."'']]
198	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/CharlesGray
199
200	A veteran British/Australian field-agent in Japan, he had lived there for 28 years. Bond is taken to his estate (which is an odd hybrid of old English comfort and Japanese style) for information about Tanaka, [[spoiler:but Henderson is killed before saying anything further.]]
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202	* AdaptationalNationality: He's Australian in the book, English in the film.
203	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Unlike his book counterpart, he's polite, mild-mannered and soft-spoken.
204	* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the book, he's a boisterous, racist Australian. In the film, he's a pleasant, mild-mannered Englishman.
205	* ArtificialLimbs: He has a wooden leg as result of The Battle of Singapore.
206	* AwesomeAussie: In the book, though his awesomeness largely revolves around consuming grossly large quantities of alcohol.
207	* DeathByAdaptation: He doesn't die in the book.
208	* DiedStandingUp: He dies from a dagger to the back as he stands next to a paper wall in mid-sentence.
209	* GoingNative: Averted. Despite having lived in Japan for close thirty years, he tries to maintain ties to Britain through his furniture, leading to a mishmash of both cultures decorating his home.
210	* HisNameIs: He's KilledMidSentence when about to name the "large Japanese industrial concern" involved in the plot.
211	* InstantDeathStab: Henderson stops speaking, and when Bond investigates, he notices a knife in Henderson's back, whick had killed him instantly through a paper wall.
212	* KilledMidSentence: Henderson is talking to Bond when he suddenly stops talking mid-sentence. As Bond approaches him, he finds that a knife was stabbed into his back through the shoji wall.
213	* NobleBigot: He's a nice guy in the book, but his old-fashioned attitude towards the Australian aboriginals makes him look politically incorrect to present-day audiences (and probably did at the time of writing, too, if not as much).
214	* OrganDodge[=/=]ProstheticLimbReveal: Played with. Bond smacks him hard in the leg — which is wooden and proves it really is him. Henderson is just glad he got the correct leg.
215	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: By contemporary standards he's ''jaw-droppingly'' racist in the book -- not with regard to the Japanese, whose culture he shows some knowledge of and who he has respect for, but with regard to [[UsefulNotes/FirstAustralians Indigenous Australians]]:
216	-->'''Dikko:''' Don't talk to me about the Aboriginals. Do you know there's a movement afoot in my country, not merely afoot but at full gallop, to give the Aboriginals the vote? You pommy poofter. You give me any more of that liberal crap and I'll have your balls for a bow-tie.
217	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Stabbed InTheBack by one of Osato's mooks after one scene. His role was much bigger in the book, where he was a foul-mouthed Australian.
218	[[/folder]]

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