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2[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[Music/NancySinatra ♫ You only live twice, or so it seems\
3One life for yourself, and one for your dreams... ♫]]'']]
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5->''"Me? I never take any risks."''
6-->-- '''James Bond'''
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12''You Only Live Twice'' is the fifth ''Film/JamesBond'' film by Creator/EonProductions, the first to be directed by Creator/LewisGilbert, and the fifth starring Creator/SeanConnery. It came out on June 13, 1967 in the UK. Music/NancySinatra performed the TitleThemeTune.
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14After Bond fakes his death to fall off the radar, he is sent to Japan to investigate SPECTRE's latest plot to spark a nuclear war by interfering in UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace. A little known fact about it is that the screenplay was written by children's book writer Creator/RoaldDahl, a good friend of Creator/IanFleming.
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16Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from [[Literature/YouOnlyLiveTwice the source novel]], which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', being sent by M on an extremely tricky diplomatic mission to Japan in an attempt to shake him out of his HeroicBSOD. The novel was considered to be unfilmable, so they had to almost completely rewrite the plot. Apart from the Japanese setting, the basic characters of Tiger Tanaka and Dikko Henderson (both of whom were portrayed completely differently in the film), and Blofeld as the villain, it has little in common with its film adaptation.
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18Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie, including Creator/KenAdam's giant volcano set. Most famous, however, is the genre-defining performance from Creator/DonaldPleasence as Blofeld, complete with a fluffy white cat to stroke - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the [[OneSceneWonder only one Pleasence is in]].
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20Preceded by ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' and followed by ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' with Creator/GeorgeLazenby temporarily taking the role from Connery.
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22!!This film provides examples of:
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24* ActionGirl
25** Aki the Japanese spy is actually a pretty good example of the trope, since she's a WaifFu with downright ''mean'' driving skills.
26** Kissy isn't so bad either. Despite hiding behind Tanaka for most of it, she joins the assault on the SPECTRE volcano all while wearing a bikini, and even manages to get a few shots off.
27* ActorIsTheTitleCharacter: One poster design had "Sean Connery IS James Bond." Ironically, it was after this movie that Connery quit the role, partially because [[IAmNotSpock he wanted to be known as something other than Bond]].
28* ActorAllusion: Alexander Knox plays the U.S. President. If you look behind him, you can see a portrait of UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson. This is an in-joke, as Knox played the former President in ''Wilson'' (1944).
29* AdaptationDistillation
30** The producers tried to do as in the book and use a castle by the sea. However, they found out there's no such thing in Japan (they are built well into land because of typhoons). The solution they found? [[RuleOfCool A volcano base!]]
31** Creator/RoaldDahl had to create a new plot as he considered that the book was more of a travelogue than a novel (see InNameOnly, below).
32* AdaptationalNationality: Henderson was a boisterous Australian in the book, as opposed to an effeminate Englishman in the film.
33* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Henderson, unlike his book counterpart, is polite, mild-mannered and soft-spoken.
34* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book, Henderson is a boisterous, racist Australian. In the film, he's a pleasant, mild-mannered Englishman.
35* AgentsDating: Bond has a dinner with his "wife" Kissy (an agent who works for Tanaka) in which Kissy informs him that they're sleeping in separate beds. Bond protests "But we're supposed to be married. We're on our honeymoon!", but Kissy replies "Not honeymoon. This is business."
36* AllThereInTheScript: Kissy Suzuki is not called or mentioned by name at all during the actual movie -- which is otherwise [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X7Y06mXgB4 filled with]] SayMyName.
37* AmericaSavesTheDay: Averted; Brits track the SPECTRE satellites to the Sea of Japan and the Japanese secret service, lead by its head honcho, Tiger Tanaka does much the grunt work of the case, including supplying its elite ninja unit for the assault on the secret base, while the US are all too willing to blame Russians.
38* AnimalMotifs: Blofeld's famous white cat underlines his own cat-like qualities, such as his calm assurance, soft demeanour, and his habit of playing with his victims before killing them.
39* ArtisticLicenceGeography: It's 1796 miles between Hong Kong and Tokyo. That means that James Bond would either spend several days on the submarine travelling between the two cities or try to get from Hong Kong (where he was publicly "murdered") to Tokyo, (by air) without being noticed.
40* AssassinOutclassin: Helga Brandt attempts to kill Bond by leaving him aboard a crashing plane. When that fails, Osato sends assassins into the ninja school, one using poison (who manages to kill Aki instead) and another using a knife concealed in a staff. These failures lead to Blofeld killing both of them.
41* ArtificialLimbs: Henderson has an artificial leg from a war injury. Bond confirms it's him by smacking the leg hard with his cane. Henderson expresses relief that he'd chosen the correct leg.
42* AssholeVictim: Helga Brandt. Trying to blame her superior for her failure to kill Bond is the worst thing any SPECTRE underling can do in front of Blofeld, so it's unlikely that anyone will feel sad for her when she's plunged into the piranha pool.
43* AwesomenessByAnalysis: A villainous one for Blofeld. Despite having no reason to think his base has been infiltrated or compromised, he alone notices the tiny mistake Bond makes putting his air conditioner inside the capsule before getting in, correctly identifying Bond as an imposter.
44* BadBoss: Blofeld is [[ExaggeratedTrope even more of this]] than in the previous two movies in which he appeared. His lair has a [[SharkPool moat full of piranha]] which he [[FedToTheBeast drops failed agents into.]] The moat is in full view, implying he [[{{Sadist}} actively likes to watch people eaten.]]
45* BadassBystander: A random ninja takes out 4 or 5 mooks with guns at the climax.
46* BallsOfSteel: A martial artist is hit in the testicles, but it's revealed he had drawn them into his body.
47* BaseOnWheels: Tanaka has his own subway train so he can move about the city without being observed. [[BlatantLies Bond assures him that M has a similar arrangement.]]
48* BetweenMyLegs: A common shot in Bond films; this shot is taken of a girl at the bath house framing James.
49* BigRedButton: Two - one pushed by Bond to destroy the SPECTRE space ship, one a switch thrown by Blofeld to activate his base's SelfDestructMechanism.
50* BilingualBonus: When Bond is having his chest hair dyed to look more Japanese, there is the following exchange:
51-->'''Bond:''' Why don't you just dye the parts that show?\
52'''Aki:''' ''(in Japanese, untranslated)'' That's a secret only we know!
53* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: Blackmail may be an ugly word, but its closely related term, extortion, is fine with Blofeld. After all, Blofeld says upfront, "Extortion is my business." Of course, one of those words is in [[FunWithAcronyms SPECTRE's acronym]] and the other isn't, which might explain the InsistentTerminology.
54* BlofeldPloy: Done ''twice'' in this one, by you-know-who. First he uses it to kill Helga instead of Osato, and then later he hilariously points a gun at Bond and shoots Osato, only to attempt to kill Bond again mere seconds later in another location where he's conveniently subdued by one of Tiger's shurikens.
55* BloodlessCarnage: Rather a ridiculous example; not only can those piranha strip a person to the bone, they can do so without spilling a drop of blood.
56* BondOneLiner:
57** "Bon appetit!" after Hans falls in the [[SharkPool piranha pool]].
58** Tanaka gets one after arranging Bond's pursuers to be dropped into the ocean by a helicopter: "How's that for Japanese efficiency?"
59--->'''Bond''': Just a drop in the ocean.
60* BondVillainStupidity:
61** Blofeld actually calls his underlings out on this. Downplayed with Blofeld himself later in the movie; when he captures Bond himself, he shoots Osato first. He ''was'' about to shoot Bond next, but his delay in doing so ultimately allows Bond to escape.
62** Note that sending out their four attack helicopters to try and shoot down Bond was a pretty huge one. The whole point of the secret volcano base is that it is ''covert'' and hidden. Bond had made his sweep and found nothing and was about to head home ... when they tried to jump him. Which [[NiceJobFixingItVillain only confirmed that the base HAD to be somewhere in the immediate vicinity]], leading to the Ninjas moving onto the island for the assault.
63* BringHimToMe: Bond is captured while impersonating a SPECTRE astronaut and brought to the control centre on Blofeld's orders.
64* TheBrute: Osato's car driver. He can endure several hits of sofa and punching him in the face is quite ineffective (much like [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} Oddjob]]).
65* BurialAtSea: Commander James Bond is buried at sea after being ambushed and killed in Hong Kong. Of course, what really happened was that MI-6 faked his death for SPECTRE's benefit, and his coffin, complete with breath mask and air tank, is picked up by a submarine.
66* CarpetOfVirility: {{Lampshaded}} when the Japanese massage girls are giggling over Bond's hairy chest.
67-->'''Bond:''' Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
68* ChairReveal: Bond is dropped through a TrapDoor onto a slide that dumps him into a couch. There's a chair facing him with its back to the audience, from which a man is giving an EvilLaugh. Then the man stands up and introduces himself as [[KidnappedByAnAlly 'Tiger' Tanaka, head of the Japanese intelligence service]], and he's just having a chuckle over how easy it was to have the famous James Bond fall into his grasp. When Bond meets the real supervillain the trope is played straight, though instead of swiveling his chair round Blofeld just leans forward out of his [[CoolChair G Plan Model 62]] to look at Bond.
69* ChekhovsGun: The SPECTRE base is in an extinct volcano. At the end the SelfDestructMechanism causes an eruption.
70* ChinaTakesOverTheWorld: Blofeld is seen speaking to two sinister Asian types representing an unidentified government, in a plot to start World War III between Russia and America. The film is set in Japan but it is not them, as Japanese Secret Service helps Bond foil the plot.
71* ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome: SPECTRE not only kept a photograph of their smuggling ship, but they helpfully annotated the fact that they killed the tourist for taking it, thus providing a clue for James Bond as to where to look.
72* CollapsingLair: After Blofeld activates a SelfDestructMechanism.
73* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: Bond is escaping from the Osato Chemicals building when Aki drives up beside him and tells him to "Get in!"
74* CommonalityConnection: The American astronaut and Russian cosmonauts are having a friendly chat about their profession when Bond rescues them.
75* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The massive army of ninja is slaughtered when it initially attacks Blofeld's lair. They become incredibly effective after Bond opens the door for them.
76* ContinuityNod: Helga Brandt is the designated Number 11, and is killed in a classic BlofeldPloy. The previous victim of the ploy in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' was also designated Number 11.
77* CoolCar: Aki's Toyota 2000GT, widely regarded as Japan's first supercar. It wasn't supposed to be a convertible, but it got converted into one due to Sean Connery's height.
78* CoolChair: Bofeld's G Plan model 62 was marketed as "the most comfortable chair in the world" even though Blofeld is planning to end the world. It's still in production [[TheRedStapler but is now marketed as the "Blofeld" model.]]
79* CoolPlane: "Little Nellie"; actually a gyrocopter.
80* CoolTrain: Tanaka's private train.
81* CorporateConspiracy: Mr. Osato, president of Osato Chemicals, is secretly allied with SPECTRE and allows them to use his company as a front for their EvilPlan to bring about WorldWarIII.
82* CrazyPrepared: Apparently Bond carries around an electronic gadget to open safes everywhere he goes.
83* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In the film's ColdOpen, an astronaut happens to be on a tether while Blofeld captures the spaceship he's attached to. In the capture the rope is severed, sending him floating into deep space.
84* CunningLinguist: Bond took a first in Oriental languages at Cambridge, so he refuses the Japanese phrasebook Moneypenny offers him because he doesn't need it.
85* DeadlyDodging: How Bond takes out Hans; Hans throws a punch, Bond ducks and flips him into the piranha pool.
86* DeathByAdaptation: Henderson gets this InTheBack.
87* DeathTrap: Brandt tries to kill Bond by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnHxmEmpJaQ holding him inside a crashing plane as she parachutes out the window.]] ([[HammerSpace don't ask how such a huge plank appears to trap Bond]]).
88* DescriptionCut: The British ambassador assures his colleagues that their "Man in Hong Kong" is right on the job. Cut to Bond in bed with a gorgeous Chinese girl (though she does turn out to be an enemy agent, so maybe he really was working).
89* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: Blofeld plots to start World War III so SPECTRE (or their shady foreign backers) can rule the post-apocalyptic aftermath.
90* DiedStandingUp: Henderson dies from a dagger to the back as he stands next to a paper wall [[KilledMidSentence in mid-sentence]].
91* DiesWideOpen: Aki, who is killed by a SPECTRE assassin who was trying to kill Bond.
92* DisposableWoman: When Creator/RoaldDahl was hired to write the screenplay, he was told that every Bond movie needs three Bond girls: one is pro-Bond and dies; another is anti-Bond but is won over by his charms; and the third, pro-Bond woman is the one he gets to bed at the end of the film. Dahl followed the template with Aki, Helga and Kissy respectively.
93* DoubleEntendre:
94** Here's a real gem:
95--->'''Tiger Tanaka:''' I have much curiosity, Bond-san. What is "Little Nellie"?\
96'''James Bond:''' Oh, she's a wonderful girl. Very small, quite fast, can do anything. Just your type.[[note]] He's referring to a small gyrocopter being assembled from a five-case kit during these lines.[[/note]]
97** The movie in fact begins with Bond getting machine-gunned in a girl's bed. The Hong Kong police remark "At least he died ''on the job''...he would've wanted it that way."
98** The girl in question having previously promised (picking up on a food-based simile of Bond's) to "give him very ''best'' duck."
99** When a female spy is told she will be 007's assistant: "It will be a pleasure serving under you, Mr. Bond."
100* DoubleTake: When Osato sees Bond in the SPECTRE control room, he first turns back to his console and then turns slowly to look at him again with a stunned look on his face.
101* DressingAsTheEnemy
102** Bond uses a smog mask and overcoat used by Henderson's assassin to pretend to be him, as well as doubling over to hide his height, pretending to be injured.
103** A SPECTRE assassin disguised as a ninja trainee tries to kill Bond.
104** The escaped astronauts/cosmonauts dress in white SPECTRE security uniforms while Bond tries to sneak on board the spacecraft disguised as a cosmonaut.
105* DrugsAreBad
106** A surprisingly early allegory on cigarettes; both Osato and Blofeld [[StraightEdgeEvil warn Bond about the dangers of smoking]].
107--->'''Blofeld''': It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond.
108** Inverted with the rocket bullet cigarettes.
109--->'''Tanaka:''' It can save your life, this cigarette.
110--->'''Bond''': You sound like an advertisement.
111* DuellingScar: This version of Blofeld has one.
112* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The SPECTRE launch facility. Entirely apart from all the side tunnels, the main set is ''staggeringly'' huge.
113* EmbarrassingPassword: The TrustPassword that Bond is supposed to expect from his (as yet unknown to him) contact in the Japanese S.I.S. The contact turns out to be a Japanese man, leading to the trust password:
114-->'''Tiger Tanaka:''' I... love you.\
115'''James Bond:''' I'm glad we got that out of the way.
116* EpicTrackingShot: Bond fights his way across the bad guys' port, filmed by a helicopter very high above the action so it looks like a bunch of ants fighting. Combined with the jazzy instrumental of the theme song playing, it is ''awesome''. It also makes it easier to conceal the fact Sean Connery is probably being doubled.
117* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Blofeld has Helga Brandt executed (by being tossed into a piranha-infested water pool) for failing to kill 007, Osato and the two Chinese emissaries can only watch in horror as Helga gets devoured in seconds.
118* EvilPlan: Blofeld's is to start World War III by destroying American and Russian spacecraft and framing the other. Again, SPECTRE had been hired to do this by a hostile foreign power.
119* ExplosiveCigar: Tanaka gives James Bond a case of cigarettes that shoots a projectile when lit. Bond ends up using them to foil Blofeld's plan to start World War III.
120* FakingTheDead: Bond in the beginning, complete with through-and-through bullet holes and fake blood.
121* FalseFlagOperation: SPECTRE does this to the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to make each think that the other is stealing its space capsules.
122* {{Fanservice}}: Should go without saying in a Bond movie. Examples include Bond main girl, Kissy Suzuki, wearing a white bikini while hiking up the Big Bad's lair. Eventually she puts on a sort of small bathrobe-kimono only to get rid of it later. For pretty much the last quarter of the film she's in a bikini. Also Tanaka's bath servants. Later on when Bond takes a Japanese identity the female makeup artists apply the Japanese makeup to Bond in an operating theater wearing bikinis!
123* FarEast: Blofeld's foreign partners are East Asians representing an unnamed country which is explicitly not Japan, but otherwise unspecified. Presumably, its identity is kept deliberately vague to avoid offending anyone--though it's fairly easy to guess [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld who]] was its real-life inspiration.
124* FastRoping: This is how Tiger Tanaka's ninjas descend into Blofeld's volcano base, but with a special roller apparatus to allow them to descend as fast as safely possible.
125* FedToTheBeast: Blofeld drops Helga Brandt into a piranha pool. Bond also makes Hans fall into it.
126* FieryRedhead: Helga Brandt (which makes her actress - [[DyeingForYourArt who is a brunette]] - saying the producers were looking for a blue-eyed blonde kind of weird...).
127* ForkliftFu: One of the {{Mooks}} try run Bond over with a forklift at the Kobe docks.
128* FunnyBackgroundEvent: When the rocket control room is under siege, Bond poses the question "Impregnable?" to Blofeld. Meanwhile, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FcOPb-9rE his cat is completely freaked out and trying to escape.]]
129* GiantMook: Hans and the Japanese driver who unknowingly picks Bond and takes him to Osato Industries.
130* GoodScarsEvilScars: After having been TheFaceless in previous films, Blofeld, is finally introduced being bald and having a long vertical scar which passes through his right eye.
131* GratuitousNinja: This exchange sums the whole movie up:
132-->'''Bond''': Do you have any commandos here?
133-->'''Tanaka''': I have much, much better. Ninjas.
134* GreaterScopeVillain: [=SPECTRE=] is working on behalf of an unnamed foreign power, who amongst other things are the ones who built the ship they use (as established in the "extortion" conversation they have). This is almost certainly Maoist China, but [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope for obvious reasons]], this isn't outright stated. Blofeld even bluntly reminds the emissaries of the unnamed foreign power as to who is EvilerThanThou of the two.
135* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: Blofeld tries to shoot Bond, and the gun gets knocked out of his hand with a ninja star, and goes off. The gun hits the ground, and goes off again. This is impossible for two reasons. The gun was never re-cocked, and the angle that the gun hit the floor would not have set the trigger off.
136* {{Hammerspace}}: Bond and Kissy climb the volcano and find Blofeld's lair - though Bond is wearing a simple Japanese fisherman's outfit, he suddenly has a second set of clothing underneath, along with wall-climbing suction cups, a gun, and cigarette case.
137* HandSignals: Tiger Tanaka uses them twice with his ninja army: once he raises his arm to signal them to enter the crater and once he waves his arm to tell them to advance.
138* HighlyVisibleNinja:
139** The ninjas actually DO dress in appropriate camouflage. When infiltrating a rocky basin, they are all wearing grey outfits that let them blend in perfectly with the gray rocks. These are more "practical" modern ninjas, though; they use guns, for example.
140** Film critic Drew [=McWeeny=] of Hitfix.com in his [[http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/james-bond-declassified-file-5-you-only-live-twice-rewrites-fleming-completely review]] of the movie:
141--->"Do ninjas typically drop into a location in plain view and then use machine guns and hand grenades? Because if so, I really misunderstood the point of ninjas."
142** Not only that, but in order to get near the volcano lair, they have to infiltrate the island first, which they do disguised as local fishermen. Presumably, more than a few of them might go even further and bring along fake wives, which Bond does.
143* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Helga Brandt has Bond tied up in her cabin and, in fact, says "I've got you now." Bond quips "Well, enjoy yourself!"
144* IKEAWeaponry: "Little Nellie" is always packed up in kit-form until needed.
145* IMinoredInTropology: Bond claims to have earned a first in Oriental languages from Cambridge. However, he only says this to Moneypenny and never demonstrates any great language skills, so it's possibly an exaggeration or joke.
146* IaijutsuPractitioner: While James Bond is attending a ninja school we see a martial arts expert do a fast draw, pretend to slice up several students and then sheath his sword just as quickly.
147* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Bond disguises himself as an astronaut, but is spotted by Blofeld when he tries to carry his portable air conditioner unit onto the spacecraft he's boarding.
148* INeedAFreakingDrink: After brawling with the GiantMook driver, Bond helps himself to Osato's drink cabinet, but reacts with disgust on realizing he's swigging Siamese vodka.
149* InfractionDistraction: Bond claims to be an industrial spy after being caught snooping around Osato Chemicals.
150* InNameOnly: The movie has extremely little in common with the novel by Ian Fleming, as the producers considered the novel (which was about Bond taking a contract on Blofeld and shutting down his garden full of ways for visitors to commit suicide, in exchange for the take from one of Tanaka's intelligence sources) completely unfilmable. The producers allowed Creator/RoaldDahl (who hated the book, considering it more of a travelogue than a novel) to create a new plot, given he [[StrictlyFormula followed the formula]] by not derailing Bond's character and having him romance three women, so the writer added a space program story similar to ''Film/DrNo''. 50 years later, elements of the You Only Live Twice novel would be incorporated into the plot of ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.
151* InopportuneImpersonationFailure: During the finale, James Bond tries to sabotage Blofeld's spacecraft while disguised as a SPECTRE astronaut, and for most of the attempt, the disguise appears to be holding up. However, at the very moment Bond is about to enter the capsule, Blofeld notices that Bond is holding his air conditioning unit in his hand, which a real astronaut would never do, and immediately orders Bond seized.
152* InterruptedIntimacy: Kissy emphatically insisted her fake marriage was strictly business and would not be consummated for their "honeymoon." This being a Bond movie, they still tried to do it, almost during ''a mission'' at that! Unfortunately, M interrupted by surfacing a submarine directly beneath them while they were just getting started.
153* IslandBase: Blofeld's ElaborateUndergroundBase is under an extinct volcano on the Japanese island of Matsu.
154* JustDesserts: Hans, TheDragon to BigBad Blofeld, is devoured after Bond knocks him into the [[SharkPool piranha pool]] Blofeld keeps for disposing of traitors and failures.
155* JustPlaneWrong: For an American Gemini rocket launch they used stock footage of an Atlas-Agena (probably carrying a weather satellite) despite having stock footage of a Gemini - which they used for a ''Soviet'' rocket launch.
156* KatanasAreJustBetter:
157** While the {{Ninja}} squad that rescues Bond near the end do use some more modern equipment, there are still plenty of shots of them using shuriken and ninja blades successfully against the SMG armed minions.
158** The GiantMook in Osata Chemicals is quite happy when Bond knocks him into a katana ornamenting the office. Fortunately, he's not trained in its use and just hacks ineffectually at Bond.
159* KickTheDog: To establish the ruthless efficiency of SPECTRE, Bond and Tanaka find a photograph taken by a tourist of a ship used to transport liquid oxygen to the secret rocket base. The tourist was "liquidated as a routine precaution".
160* KidnappedByAnAlly: Tanaka feels a need to have Bond lured down a corridor so he can fall through a trapdoor and down a chute which dumps him in a chair in the director's office. One can't help feeling that giving Bond a quiet invitation and directions to the stairs would have been less of a bother for both parties.
161* KilledMidSentence: [=MI6=] agent Henderson is backstabbed (literally) by a SPECTRE assassin while talking to Bond, as [[HisNameIs he's about to discuss]] the large Japanese industrial concern involved.
162* LastRequest: Bond asks for a [[ExplosiveCigar last cigarette]] which he uses to kill the mook closest to the controls opening the sliding roof.
163* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The British Hong Kong policeman who discovers Bond "dead" in the opening sequence, almost looking straight to the audience.
164-->'''Policeman:''' Well, at least he died on the job. He'd have wanted it this way.
165* {{Leitmotif}}: The rocket that SPECTRE uses is accompanied by a dramatic fanfare.
166* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Bond of all people mutters, "The things I do for England," while unzipping Helga's dress.
167* LockAndLoadMontage: The scene where "Little Nellie" gets assembled.
168* LuckBasedSearchTechnique: While Bond is brawling with a GiantMook they knock open the panel covering a safe with crucial evidence, that Bond later sees reflected in a mirror when [[INeedAFreakingDrink he pours himself a much-needed drink afterwards.]]
169* MadeInCountryX: After Bond breaks into the Osato offices, cracks a safe and kills the Mook who attacks him, he decides he needs to take a drink from Osato's bar. He takes a sip and notes with horror that he's drinking Siamese vodka.
170* MagicPlasticSurgery: Bond receives prosthetics so that he can appear to be Japanese. It isn't very convincing.
171* MagicalSecurityCam: Viewers on the ground see one of the space capsule capture scenes from ''outside'' the spaceships - from the same angle as the audience see it. And earlier on, Tanaka's cameras record Bond pursuing Aki, and his helicopter towing away a carload of bad guys, with similar vantage points.
172* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Helga Brandt gets Bond into a plane under the ruse that she is betraying her employer...then jumps out with a parachute after trapping him, leaving him to die in a plane crash.
173* MakeupWeapon: Helga Brant uses a lipstick case to discharge disorienting gas.
174* MangledCatchPhrase: With mangled TrademarkFavoriteDrink too, as Henderson makes Bond a vodka martini, "stirred, not shaken".
175* MarriageOfConvenience: Bond gets cosmetic surgery and marries Kissy to pose as a native pearl diver in order to get close to a dormant volcano where Bond suspects that [=SPECTRE=] has an ElaborateUndergroundBase. Lampshaded when Bond proposes sleeping together as a "honeymoon":
176-->'''Kissy''': Honeymoon? This is business.
177-->[Bond pushes away a plate of oysters.]
178-->'''James Bond''': Won't be needing these, then.
179* MegaMawManeuver: [[BigBad Blofeld]] has a rocket with a nose cone that splits open, which he uses in {{False Flag Operation}}s to capture US and Soviet space capsules to start WorldWarIII between them for [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]]'s own [[WarForFunAndProfit profit]].
180* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: American and Russian spacecraft are stolen → elaborate plan by SPECTRE to start a nuclear war between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.
181* MomentKiller:
182** A SPECTRE helicopter passing overhead interrupts Bond and Kissy Suzuki's romantic interlude on the island.
183** And of course what becomes a RunningGag of Bond's superiors interrupting (either before, during or after) sex with the Bond girl at the end of the movie.
184* MuggedForDisguise: Bond and some imprisoned astronauts take out several SPECTRE guards and steal their uniforms.
185* MurphysBed: Bond's death is faked in the opening by having him trapped in a fold-out bed in a hotel, which is then peppered with bullets by mooks.
186* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Tiger Tanaka is a badass on the side of good.
187* NeckSnap: Bond breaks the neck of and kills the the assassin who killed Henderson.
188* NeverMyFault: When Blofeld reprimands Helga and Osato for failing to kill Bond in their first encounter, Helga attempts to put her failure solely on Osato when he reveals she didn't follow his orders. Blofeld doesn't take that well and has her fed to his piranhas shortly thereafter.
189* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: The "business meeting" at Osato's chemical company.
190* NoNameGiven: The Bond Girl is not even given a name during the film's duration. It's not until the credits that's she's listed as Kissy Suzuki.
191* NothingCanStopUsNow: Blofeld is unperturbed when Tanaka's ninja army blast a hole in the roof of his lair and fast-rope inside. He orders the [[LockDown control room sealed with armored shutters]], saying: "We are now impregnable. Interception will take place in eight minutes. Nothing can prevent that."
192* ObviousStuntDouble: When Bond is fighting Hans in Blofeld's quarters, he appears to be about the same height. When Bond back-drops him into the water, he appears to be about a foot shorter.
193* OhCrap: Osato acts that way after he sees Blofeld's killing of his female underling after she failed him. Before he was calmly walking away, but after Blofeld's deed, after which the BigBad roars, "Kill Bond, NOW!", Osato scampers up the stairs in fright at his truly crazy boss.
194* OneLastSmoke: Bond uses this as a ploy to help out his allies in their assault on the volcano.
195* TheOner: An extended helicopter tracking shot as Bond runs across a roof fighting SPECTRE minions.
196* OrganDodge: Played with. Bond meets contact Dikko Henderson, borrows his walking stick, and smacks him hard in the leg -- which is wooden and proves it really is him. Henderson is just glad he got the correct leg.
197* OutWithABang: With the usual DoubleEntendre when Bond is found 'dead' in bed thanks to a Chinese FemmeFatale.
198-->"[[HesDeadJim We're too late]]."
199-->"[[BondOneLiner Well, at least he died on the job]]."
200-->"He'd have wanted it this way."
201* OvertRendezvous: Bond arranges to meet Henderson (the [=MI6=] man in Tokyo) at a sumo match. He instead sends Aki to pick Bond up and take him to his house, making Bond somewhat suspicious of her until she's revealed to be working for the Japanese Secret Service.
202* PaperThinDisguise: "Japanese Bond". It's a nod to the novel, where Bond really manages to look Japanese... somehow.
203* PerfectPoison: A SPECTRE mook, trying to kill Bond, accidentally poisons Aki with a drop of liquid on her lips that kills her in seconds.
204* PiranhaProblem: Blofeld keeps a piranha pond in his underground lair - handy for getting rid of failed employees.
205* PlayingBothSides: SPECTRE's plan is to start a conflict between the US and USSR by stealing each country's space capsules and then blaming the other.
206* PocketRocketLauncher: The Japanese Secret Service uses rocket guns (which fire rocket-propelled bullets) and a trick cigarette which fires a "baby (miniature) rocket" when lighted. The villain also arms his troops with gyrojet guns.
207* PrematureEulogy: The one for James Bond, delivered by the Royal Navy as he's a member of the Royal Navy (RNVR in the novels, besides his other job...), quoting 1 Corinthians 15. Divers retrieve the "corpse" and cut open the lining to reveal 007, reporting for duty.
208* ProstheticLimbReveal: James Bond meets with another operative in Japan who walks up to him with a limp. Bond borrows the man's cane and hits him in the leg with it to make sure he isn't faking. The man's only comment is to say he's glad Bond picked the correct leg.
209* PubliclyDiscussingTheSecret: {{Invoked}}, both the book and film. Tiger Tanaka says it's a Japanese custom.
210* QuotesFitForATrailer: One trailer for an Creator/{{ITV}} broadcast ended with Blofeld's line "You can see it all on television."
211* RailingKill: Happens a lot during the big battle at the end.
212* RealityHasNoSubtitles:
213** Tiger Tanaka speaks untranslated Japanese to his underlings several times.
214** The Soviet ground controllers and cosmonauts speak untranslated Russian during the launch and flight.
215** Bond is about to have his chest hair dyed black as part of his Japanese disguise. He says "Why don't you just dye the parts that show?" His first BondGirl Aki repeats this in Japanese to the female Japanese attendants (who apparently don't speak English) and they all laugh.
216** When Bond and his second BondGirl Kissy Suzuki arrive at the Ama village, she talks to several of the villagers in Japanese.
217* RealityIsUnrealistic
218** The volcano set is so immense it looks like it was all done with miniatures--but as the documentary featurette reveals, ''they actually built the whole huge set'' and flew real helicopters into it.
219** The "rocket guns" actually were in development in the 60s and called Gyrojets. They didn't catch on due to their lower muzzle velocity and accuracy compared to conventional firearms.
220* RecycledInSpace: Inverted. This is the ''original'' attempt to trigger nuclear war between Russia and the US, but it has since spawned many imitators; the plot would be recycled in the series itself for the 10th Bond film, ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', but it's ''this'' one that is actually based in space.
221* RedChina: It's heavily implied that China hired Blofeld to trigger a war between the US and USSR.
222* RedRightHand: Blofeld has his iconic facial scar down the right side of his face.
223* ReplacementGoldfish: Aki with Kissy (whose name isn't even mentioned in the film). In fact, Roald Dahl alleges that the producers gave him a formula mandating this when he first signed on.
224* RetCon:
225** Bond tells Henderson that he has never been to Japan. In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', he was about to go on about some NoodleIncident involving him and M in Tokyo.
226** Blofeld says that Bond is the one man they know who carries a Walther PPK. Yet in the [[Film/DrNo movie where the PPK was first issued to him]], it was said to be used by the CIA (in fact Felix Leiter is shown to have one).
227* RevealingCoverup: SPECTRE, repeatedly. SPECTRE's assassination of Henderson seemingly prevented him from giving Bond a lead, but it inadvertently allowed Bond to follow the assassin's trail right back to Osato Industries and leading to him uncovering Osato's role in the plot anyway: thus learning the very thing that Henderson's murder was intended to prevent. Moreover, Osato inexplicably kept photographic evidence of its secret activities (rather than destroying such obviously sensitive information), along with stating that it had murdered a tourist to keep it secret. This evidence in turn leads Bond to the island which conceals SPECTRE's hidden volcano base. But the most egregious example is when Bond is doing aerial recon of the island and finds nothing of interest... until he gets attacked by four SPECTRE helicopters, tipping him off that their base ''has'' to be in that general area. Had SPECTRE stayed put, Bond would have reported to his superiors that he found nothing and SPECTRE's secret would have remained safely intact. In summary, the SPECTRE plot likely would have succeeded and their secret lair gone undiscovered had they not ''repeatedly'' tipped their hand with clumsy attempts at a cover-up.
228* RightHandCat: This is probably the TropeMaker, though Blofeld's cat had been featured before.
229* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Much of the plot was inspired by the Cold War related space race of the 1960s, which had captured much public attention. Ironically, this movie was released five months following the Apollo 1 launchpad fire, which resulted in the deaths of three U.S. astronauts and NASA's suspension of U.S. manned space flight for over a year, which included the time frame of this movie's theatrical showings.
230* {{Safecracking}}: A safe is revealed [[LuckBasedSearchTechnique while Bond is brawling]] with a GiantMook in Osata's office. After he's subdued, Bond breaks into the safe using a small gadget that signals when each combination number is reached. Unfortunately, an alarm goes off the moment Bond opens the safe door, so he just has time to grab some papers and run.
231* SceneryPorn: Spectacular aerial footage of Japan.
232* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Blofeld's ''cat'' attempts this as the aforementioned FunnyBackgroundEvent[[note]]In reality, it was so scared that the production crew spent two days trying to find it and coax it out of hiding.[[/note]]; eventually it does escape after Blofeld has to loosen his grip to [[spoiler:shoot Osato]].
233* SelfDestructMechanism:
234** The SPECTRE spaceship has a built-in self-destruct device that's activated by an "exploder button" in the SPECTRE base. Blofeld orders Hans to push the button [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once the American astronauts have been seized.]] Bond overhears this conversation and uses the button to blow up the spaceship before this happens (JustInTime, as usual).
235** The SPECTRE base has one too. When it is stormed, Blofeld throws a switch that sets off explosions and (somehow) a volcanic eruption.
236* SentryGun: The "crater guns" that Blofeld ordered to be used against Tiger Tanaka's ninja army. They're quite effective in holding them off until Bond and Tanaka succeed in opening the entrance to the volcano base.
237* SexSignalsDeath: Aki succumbs to Bond's charms, and while they're sleeping in the same bed afterwards she is killed by an assassination attempt meant for Bond.
238* SharkPool: Instead of sharks, the pool in Ernst Stavro Blofeld's office has piranha. Blofeld uses them to dispose of one of his SPECTRE minions, the woman called Number 11.
239* SicEm: Osato tells Number 11 "Kill him!'' and Blofeld says "Kill Bond! Now!"
240* SkyHeist: In the scene that is the TropeCodifier (and inspiration for many other examples) Bond and Aki are being pursued by a carload of gun wielding thugs. Aki calls Tiger Tanaka for help. Straight after the call for help a large helicopter hovers over the gunmen's car and picked it up with a very large electromagnet, lifts the car into the sky and dumps it into the waters of Tokyo Bay.
241* SlainInTheirSleep: Aki is murdered in her sleep by mistake (they were aiming for Bond). An assassin sneaks into the rafters of their bedroom and lowers a string, then puts a drop of poison on the string to drip down into Bond's mouth; but Bond and Aki both turn over, so poor Aki's mouth is where the string is.
242* SmallRoleBigImpact: Creator/DonaldPleasence's Blofeld has less than 30 minutes of screentime, but is easily the most memorable Bond villain of all.
243* SpacePirates: Blofeld's plan for triggering a world war involves stealing American and Soviet space ships.
244* SparedByTheAdaptation: Blofeld. In the book (which takes place ''after'' ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'') James Bond strangles him with his bare hands. In the movie he gets hit non-fatally with a ninja star but [[KarmaHoudini manages to escape]])
245* TheSpeechless: Blofeld's bodyguard Hans never utters a word.
246* SpoilerCover: The box art prominently shows the full likeness of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, which is shown in that movie for the first time. It isn't exactly a major plot twist, but it doesn't seem appropriate for a villain who famously spent at least two a half ''movies'' with his face just off-camera. To a lesser extent one of the VHS releases shows his face in one of the stills on the back of the box, although it's not super obvious it's him as you can't see his trademark cat.
247* SpotTheImposter: Blofeld sees through Bond's astronaut disguise when he attempts to enter the capsule while carrying his air conditioner unit in his hand, something a real astronaut would never do.
248* SpySpeak
249** When Bond meets with his Japanese contact he gives her the Sign "I love you" to identify himself to her. She doesn't give him a Countersign to verify that she is his contact, which causes him to be suspicious of her. Later on Tiger Tanaka gives him the Countersign, which causes Bond to trust him.
250** While Bond is flying "Little Nellie", he's attacked by four SPECTRE helicopters. After destroying them he calls Tiger Tanaka and tells him what happened in Metaphor form.
251---> '''Bond:''' Little Nellie got a hot reception. Four big shots made improper advances towards her. But she defended her honour with great success.
252* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: Kissy is strafed by a SPECTRE helicopter while she's swimming back to the village to notify Tiger Tanaka about the SPECTRE base in the volcano.
253* StockFootage
254** The American and Soviet space launches - although the latter is clearly using a clip of an American Gemini launch, as footage of a Soviet launch was probably unavailable due to the Soviets keeping such footage strictly classified so the Americans couldn't see what their rockets looked like.
255** There's also a lot of stock footage of B-52s taking off or in the air, to show American nuclear bombers heading to their fail-safe points.
256* StormingTheCastle: The ninja attack on the volcanic hideout.
257* StrictlyFormula: A downright enforced case, as Roald Dahl found the original book lacking on plot and decided to do a story similar to ''Film/DrNo'', and the producers' only imposition was to put "the girl formula", involving three women for Bond to seduce — an ally and a henchwoman who both get killed, and the main Bond girl (with only the last coming from the novel).
258* StukaScream: Used when Bond is trapped in a crashing plane.
259* SupervillainLair
260** A hollowed out volcano that is also used as a rocket launch base. It's one of the most famous and recognizable lairs in any fiction. It probably inspired a lot of later such lairs.
261** It's certainly lovingly parodied in the second ''Film/AustinPowers'' movie, with entire sets recreated very closely.
262* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Two scenes have filmed footage that are slightly illogical: the television in Aki's car shows a helicopter throwing a car in the middle of the sea ''from above'', and Blofeld's lair has a monitor showing ''a live space feed'' of the American ship about to be engulfed.
263* TalentDouble: Akiko Wakabayashi could not drive, so all of her driving scenes were shot with stuntmen wearing wigs.
264* ATankardOfMooseUrine: Bond kills a mook and decides to raid Osato's drinks cabinet. Horrified at the taste of what he's poured himself, he exclaims "Siamese vodka!" before departing.
265* TapOnTheHead:
266** A {{mook}} to Bond at the Kobe docks and Bond/astronauts to SPECTRE guards.
267** Bond and some captured astronauts take out several SPECTRE guards with punches.
268* TelevisionGeography: As Helga flies Bond, we see the ground in the background is typical English farming countryside, not Japanese.
269* ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: Though filmed on-location in Japan with Japanese actors, the film has some funny ideas about the country. This includes (but is not limited to) Japan's single most famous castle being a "secret" Ninja training base. Well, what better way to learn stealth than to avoid those pesky tourists?
270* ThrowAwayGuns: Kissy shoots a mook who's about to kill Tanaka, then throws away her revolver and doesn't pick up another weapon (despite a major firefight all around her) [[FauxActionGirl spending the rest of the time clinging to Tanaka]].
271* TimeBomb: Subverted (somewhat) when Bond detonates the enemy spacecraft with five seconds left on the timer.
272* TitleDrop: Given that the film starts with 007 faking his death, Blofeld says "You only live twice, Mr. Bond."
273* ToThePain: When Helga Brandt has James Bond tied to a chair in her cabin, she pulls open a drawer to display a set of cutting utensils, including a dermatologist's dermatome. She takes out the dermatome and threatens to use it on Bond unless he talks.
274* TokyoTower: It can be seen in a background shot when the helicopter picks up the car full of EvilMinions.
275* TrapDoor: Blofeld has a bridge that collapses on command, dropping whatever is on it into the piranha-infested water. Also when Tanaka uses one of these (plus a slide) on Bond.
276* TrickAndFollowPloy: The villains give Bond the proof he needs that their secret base is nearby by attacking him.
277* TrustPassword: Bond's password with the Japanese Secret Service is "I love you".
278* TuxedoAndMartini: Averted. This is the first film, the only one besides ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', that Bond doesn't wear a tuxedo.
279* TwentyOneGunSalute: During the BurialAtSea of James Bond at the beginning of the movie, several sailors fire rifles as a salute.
280* UnseenNoMore: Blofeld’s face is revealed after 2 and a half movies of being TheFaceless.
281* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: It seems that, in a time when the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. had a monopoly on space flight, the people of Japan thought nothing of a rocket launch from one of their islands.
282* VolcanoLair: The SPECTRE base is built inside a volcano. It predictably erupts in the climax.
283* WarForFunAndProfit: Blofeld is being paid to start WorldWarThree between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., apparently by agents of RedChina.
284* WeddingsInJapan: A fake one between a Bond in Japanese disguise and Kissy Suzuki, but traditional nonetheless.
285* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Say, did those American and Soviet astronauts ever make it back home?
286* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Donald Pleasance seems to be doing a sort of ambiguously-European thing as Blofeld.
287* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: After the Americans move their launch up to midnight (Japan Standard Time), Bond has to move quickly find the SPECTRE base and stop their plot.
288* {{Yellowface}}: Mostly averted; set in Japan, the movie features many well-known Japanese actors and actresses (and a Chinese actress in the beginning). But in a rare in-universe example, Bond spends time disguised as a Japanese peasant.
289* YouHaveFailedMe: Blofeld does this to Helga Brandt (who's fed to Blofeld's piranhas), and Osato (who's shot).

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