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* RedChina: Heavily implied that they are the ones who hired Blofeld to do all this.
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After five years of playing the character, Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie, including Ken Adam's Creator/KenAdam's giant volcano set. Most famous, however, is the genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld, complete with a fluffy white cat to stroke - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one Pleasence is in (though the character himself shows up a few more times). This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers, as were a few other tropes.
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* HeroicBSOD: Bond is going through one at the novel's start as a result of the [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService previous book's events]].
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'''''You Only Live Twice''''' (often abbreviated as YOLT) is the fifth ''Film/JamesBond'' film, starring SeanConnery. After Bond fakes his death to fall off the radar, he is sent to Japan to investigate SPECTRE's latest plot. One of the goofier Bond films (but it's still awesome!), a little known fact that contributes to this is that the screenplay was written by children's book writer Creator/RoaldDahl, a good friend of Ian Fleming.
Released in 1967, Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role prior. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie, particularly Ken Adam's giant volcano set.
A genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld (complete with fluffy white cat to stroke) - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one he's in. This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers.
Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from the source novel, which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', being sent by M on an extremely tricky diplomatic mission to Japan in an attempt to shake him out of his HeroicBSOD. 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.
Released in 1967, Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role prior. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie, particularly Ken Adam's giant volcano set.
A genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld (complete with fluffy white cat to stroke) - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one he's in. This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers.
Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from the source novel, which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', being sent by M on an extremely tricky diplomatic mission to Japan in an attempt to shake him out of his HeroicBSOD. 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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'''''You Only Live Twice''''' (often (1967), often abbreviated as YOLT) YOLT, is the fifth ''Film/JamesBond'' film, and the fifth starring SeanConnery. After Bond fakes his death to fall off the radar, he is sent to Japan to investigate SPECTRE's latest plot. One of the goofier Bond films (but it's still awesome!), a little known fact that contributes to this is that the screenplay was written by children's book writer Creator/RoaldDahl, a good friend of Ian Fleming.
Released in 1967, Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role prior. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie, particularly Ken Adam's giant volcano set.
A genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld (complete with fluffy white cat to stroke) - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one he's in. This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers.
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Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from the source novel, which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of ''Film/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 filmadaptation.
adaptation.
After five years of playing the character, Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie, including Ken Adam's giant volcano set. Most famous, however, is the genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld, complete with a fluffy white cat to stroke - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one Pleasence is in (though the character himself shows up a few more times). This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers, as were a few other tropes.
Released in 1967, Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role prior. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie, particularly Ken Adam's giant volcano set.
A genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld (complete with fluffy white cat to stroke) - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one he's in. This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers.
Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from the source novel, which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of ''Film/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
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The fifth ''Film/JamesBond'' film, starring SeanConnery. After Bond fakes his death to fall off the radar, he is sent to Japan to investigate SPECTRE's latest plot. One of the goofier Bond films (but it's still awesome!), a little known fact that contributes to this is that the screenplay was written by children's book writer Creator/RoaldDahl, a good friend of Ian Fleming.
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* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: Bond of all people mutters "The things I do for England," while unzipping Helga's dress.
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* UnusualEuphemism: "Stop looking at my black cat."
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* SelfDestructMechanism - see BigRedButton above. Hilariously called an "exploder" button!
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* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Aki]], who is killed by a SPECTRE assassin who was trying to kill Bond.
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* BurialAtSea: Commander JamesBond gets one.
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* StandardHollywoodStrafingProcedure: A SPECTRE helicopter does this to Kissy Suzuki.
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* OneSceneWonder: After he reveals himself to Bond, Blofeld is only in a couple of scenes, yet he manages to be one of the most memorable villains in any Bond film.
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* Creator/RoaldDahl: wrote the movie's screenplay.
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* SanitySlippage: Blofeld has suffered one of these; his ego has bloated to BeyondTheImpossible levels and his formerly calm speech has been replaced by a [[NoIndoorVoice Hitleresque bark]].
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The fifth ''Film/JamesBond'' film, starring SeanConnery. After Bond fakes his death to fall off the radar, he is sent to Japan to investigate SPECTRE's latest plot. One of the goofier Bond films (but it's still awesome!), a little known fact that contributes to this is that the screenplay was written by children's book writer RoaldDahl, Creator/RoaldDahl, a good friend of Ian Fleming.
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* PiranhaProblem: Blofeld kept a piranha pond in his underground lair - handy for getting rid of failed employees.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Partially averted. Bond initially has no interest in tracking down Blofeld until he discovers he's behind the Garden of Death, after which he quickly makes his death his number one priority.
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* CompleteMonster: Blofeld, as always. In this movie in particular he plans to start WWIII so that the SPECTRE will rule the world once England and URSS would have destroyed each other. He's also the cruelest BadBoss ever existed, as he feeds Helga Brandt to piranhas after she failed to kill Bond.
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* HeroicBSOD: Bond is going through one at the novel's start as a result of the [[OnHerMajestysSecretService previous book's events]].
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* HoYay: Of a sort. Bond's password to meet his contact in Japan is "I love you", which leads to the following exchange:
-->'''Bond:''' "If you're Tanaka, then how do you feel about me?"
-->'''Tanaka:''' "I...love you."
-->'''Bond:''' "I'm glad we've got that out of the way."
-->'''Bond:''' "If you're Tanaka, then how do you feel about me?"
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* 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, ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', but its ''this'' one that is actually based in space.
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->'''JamesBond''': Do you have any commandos here?
->'''Tiger Tanaka''': I have much, much better. [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Ninjas]].
The fifth JamesBond film, starring SeanConnery. After Bond fakes his death to fall off the radar, he is sent to Japan to investigate SPECTRE's latest plot. One of the goofier Bond films (but it's still awesome!), a little known fact that contributes to this is that the screenplay was written by children's book writer RoaldDahl, a good friend of Ian Fleming.
Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role prior. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie.
A genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld (complete with fluffy white cat to stroke) - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one he's in. This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers.
Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from the source novel, which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of OnHerMajestysSecretService, being sent by M on an extremely tricky diplomatic mission to Japan in an attempt to shake him out of his HeroicBSOD. 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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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Aki the Japanese spy is actually a pretty good example of the trope, since she's a WaifFu with downright ''mean'' driving skills. [[spoiler:Too bad she bit it.]]
* AdaptationDistillation: 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!]]
* AllThereInTheScript: Kissy Suzuki is not called or mentioned by name at all during the actual movie.
* BallsOfSteel: A martial artist is hit in the testicles, but it's revealed he had drawn them into his body.
* BetweenMyLegs: A common shot in Bond films; this shot is taken of a girl at the bath house framing James.
* BigBad: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
* BigRedButton: Twice - [[spoiler:one pushed by Bond to destroy the SPECTRE space ship, one used by Blofeld to activate his base's SelfDestructMechanism.]]
* BlofeldPloy: Done ''twice'' in this one, by you-know-who. First he uses it to kill [[spoiler:Helga instead of Osato]], and then later [[spoiler: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.]]
* BondOneLiner: "Bon appetit!" after Hans falls in the [[SharkPool piranha pool]].
* BondVillainStupidity: Blofeld actually calls his underlings out on this. When he captures Bond himself, he ''does'' make a mistake that allows Bond to escape ([[spoiler:he shoots Osato first]]), but that doesn't seem to be an example of this as Bond was saved by events out of Blofeld's control.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Hans.
* CoitusEnsues: Kissy emphatically insists her fake marriage is strictly business and will not be consummated for their "honeymoon." This being a Bond movie, they still do it, almost during ''a mission'' at that!
* CollapsingLair: After Blofeld activates a SelfDestructMechanism.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Both played straight and averted. The massive army of ninja towards the end is slaughtered when it initially attacks Blofeld's lair, but incredibly effective once Bond takes a hand and helps out.
** They're slaughtered at the beginning because Blofeld's base has automated defenses, and later they can only come in a few at a time when Bond manages to open the crater hatch. To their credit, they then blow a hole in it so SPECTRE can't simply close it again.
* CoolPlane: "Little Nellie"; actually a gyrocopter
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Poor Aki.]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:Poor Henderson.]]
* DoubleTake: Osato when he sees Bond in the SPECTRE control room.
* TheDragon: Hans
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Bond and two escaped astronauts in white SPECTRE security uniforms.
* DrugsAreBad: A surprisingly early allegory on cigarettes.
-->'''Blofeld''': It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond.
** Inverted with the rocket bullet cigarettes.
-->'''Tanaka:''' "These cigarettes may save your life."
* DuelingScar: This version of Blofeld has one.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The SPECTRE launch facility. Entirely apart from all the side tunnels, the main set is ''staggeringly'' huge.
* 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''.
* FakingTheDead: Bond in the beginning, complete with through-and-through bullet holes and fake blood.
* 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.
* {{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 Tiger's bath servants.
** They even apply the Japanese makeup to Bond in an operating theater wearing bikinis!
* FastRoping: This is how Tiger Tanaka's ninjas descend into Blofeld's volcano base.
* 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...).
* FiveBadBand:
** TheBigBad: Blofeld.
** TheDragon: Hans.
** TheBrute: Osato's Driver.
** TheEvilGenius: Osato.
** TheDarkChick: Helga Brandt.
* ForkliftFu: The {{mooks}} at the Kobe docks.
* GiantMook: Hans and the Japanese driver who unknowingly picks Bond and takes him to Osato Industries.
* HandSignals: Tiger Tanaka twice uses arm signals with his ninja army.
* IKEAWeaponry: "Little Nellie" is always packed up in kit-form until needed.
* HoYay: Of a sort. Bond's password to meet his contact in Japan is "I love you", which leads to the following exchange:
-->'''Bond:''' "If you're Tanaka, then how do you feel about me?"
-->'''Tanaka:''' "I...love you."
-->'''Bond:''' "I'm glad we've got that out of the way."
* InNameOnly: The movie has extremely little in common with the novel by Ian Fleming - though the novel was considered completely unfilmable.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: As the page quote shows, the warriors sent to help Bond storm the enemy base.
* KatanasAreJustBetter - 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.
* [[BlackLikeMe Japanese Like Me]]: Bond's disguise as a Japanese fisherman.
* KidnappedByAnAlly: For some reason, Tanaka decides not to just send Bond a polite note.
* LastRequest: Bond - but he escapes of course.
* LockAndLoadMontage: The scene where "Little Nellie" gets assembled.
* MuggedForDisguise: How Bond and the cosmonauts got their SPECTRE uniforms.
* NeckSnap: Bond uses it to kill the assassin who killed Henderson.
* 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.
* OneLastSmoke
* OneSceneWonder: After he reveals himself to Bond, Blofeld is only in a couple of scenes, yet he manages to be one of the most memorable villains in any Bond film.
* TheOner: An extended helicopter tracking shot as Bond runs across a roof fighting SPECTRE minions.
* OvertRendezvous: Bond meets with his Japanese Secret Service contact at a sumo match.
* PaperThinDisguise - "Japanese Bond". It's a nod to the novel, where Bond really manages to look Japanese...somehow. He even fools Blofeld for a while after being captured.
* PiranhaProblem: Blofeld kept a piranha pond in his underground lair - handy for getting rid of failed employees.
* PlayingBothSides: SPECTRE is stealing American and Soviet spacecrafts to provoke a war.
* RailingKill: Happens a lot during the big battle at the end.
* 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, ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', but its ''this'' one that is actually based in space.
* RefugeInAudacity: While planning the car chase, Dana Broccoli (wife of one of the producers) suggested on having one of the cars being removed by a helicopter with a magnet. And they followed suit.
* RevealingCoverup: SPECTRE, repeatedly.
* RightHandCat - this is probably the trope maker, though Blofeld's cat had been featured before.
* RoaldDahl: wrote the movie's screenplay.
* {{Safecracking}}: Bond breaks into a safe at the Osato Chemical Company.
* SceneryPorn: Spectacular aerial footage of Japan.
* SelfDestructMechanism - see BigRedButton above.
** Sort-of used by Bond himself (making clever use of a geyser) in the novel.
* SentryGun: The crater guns Blofeld used against Tanaka's ninja army.
* SharkPool - Instead of sharks, there are piranha.
* SicEm: Osato tells Number 11 "Kill him!'' and Blofeld says "Kill Bond! Now!"
* TheSpeechless - Hans.
* StormingTheCastle: the {{ninja}} attack on the volcanic hideout.
* SupervillainLair - 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.
** It's certainly lovingly parodied in the second AustinPowers movie, with entire sets recreated very closely.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Two scenes (in Aki's car and Blofeld's lair) have filmed footage that just evokes FridgeLogic.
* TapOnTheHead: A {{mook}} to Bond at the Kobe docks and Bond/astronauts to SPECTRE guards.
* TitleDrop: Blofeld says "You only live twice, Mr. Bond."
** In the book, it's part of a haiku Bond composes.
* TokyoTower: can be seen in a background shot when the helicopter picks up the car full of EvilMinions.
* TrapDoor - Blofeld has a bridge that collapses on command, dropping whatever is on it into the piranha-infested water. Also subverted when Japanese Secret Service chief Tiger Tanaka uses one of these (plus a slide) on Bond.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Blofeld is being paid to start WorldWarThree between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., apparently by agents of RedChina.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Say, did those American and Soviet astronauts ever make it back home?
* YouHaveFailedMe
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!!The 1964 novel contains examples of:
* AwesomeAussie: Dikko Henderson, though his awesomeness largely revolves around consuming grossly large quantities of alcohol.
* CliffHanger
* DevilInPlainSight: Blofeld in his Dr. Shatterhand guise, however; as penitent suicide has such an honoured place in Japan (especially as portrayed by Fleming), no-one bar Tiger Tanaka is in a hurry to do anything about him.
* GardenOfEvil: The Garden of Death, created by Blofeld as a mecca for suicidal Japanese. [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou It lives up to its name]].
* HannibalLecture: Blofeld subjects Bond to one of these; 007 answers him in the [[KilledOffForReal bluntest and most terminal way possible]].
* HeroicBSOD: Bond is going through one at the novel's start as a result of the [[OnHerMajestysSecretService previous book's events]].
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Bond's obituary makes reference to a series of "[[TakeThatMe sensationalistic novels]]" written about Bond's life.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Partially averted. Bond initially has no interest in tracking down Blofeld until he discovers he's behind the Garden of Death, after which he quickly makes his death his number one priority.
* SanitySlippage: Blofeld has suffered one of these; his ego has bloated to BeyondTheImpossible levels and his formerly calm speech has been replaced by a [[NoIndoorVoice Hitleresque bark]].
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->'''JamesBond''': Do you have any commandos here?
->'''Tiger Tanaka''': I have much, much better. [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja Ninjas]].
The fifth JamesBond film, starring SeanConnery. After Bond fakes his death to fall off the radar, he is sent to Japan to investigate SPECTRE's latest plot. One of the goofier Bond films (but it's still awesome!), a little known fact that contributes to this is that the screenplay was written by children's book writer RoaldDahl, a good friend of Ian Fleming.
Connery sleepwalks his way through the movie, having already stated he was sick of playing the role prior. Many of the most widely known and celebrated Bond tropes come from this movie.
A genre-defining performance from DonaldPleasence as Blofeld (complete with fluffy white cat to stroke) - many people are surprised to be told this is actually the only one he's in. This Blofeld was specifically parodied as Doctor Evil in AustinPowers.
Notably, this was the first film to deviate significantly from the source novel, which has Bond, still reeling from the tragic events of OnHerMajestysSecretService, being sent by M on an extremely tricky diplomatic mission to Japan in an attempt to shake him out of his HeroicBSOD. 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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!!This film provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Aki the Japanese spy is actually a pretty good example of the trope, since she's a WaifFu with downright ''mean'' driving skills. [[spoiler:Too bad she bit it.]]
* AdaptationDistillation: 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!]]
* AllThereInTheScript: Kissy Suzuki is not called or mentioned by name at all during the actual movie.
* BallsOfSteel: A martial artist is hit in the testicles, but it's revealed he had drawn them into his body.
* BetweenMyLegs: A common shot in Bond films; this shot is taken of a girl at the bath house framing James.
* BigBad: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
* BigRedButton: Twice - [[spoiler:one pushed by Bond to destroy the SPECTRE space ship, one used by Blofeld to activate his base's SelfDestructMechanism.]]
* BlofeldPloy: Done ''twice'' in this one, by you-know-who. First he uses it to kill [[spoiler:Helga instead of Osato]], and then later [[spoiler: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.]]
* BondOneLiner: "Bon appetit!" after Hans falls in the [[SharkPool piranha pool]].
* BondVillainStupidity: Blofeld actually calls his underlings out on this. When he captures Bond himself, he ''does'' make a mistake that allows Bond to escape ([[spoiler:he shoots Osato first]]), but that doesn't seem to be an example of this as Bond was saved by events out of Blofeld's control.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: Hans.
* CoitusEnsues: Kissy emphatically insists her fake marriage is strictly business and will not be consummated for their "honeymoon." This being a Bond movie, they still do it, almost during ''a mission'' at that!
* CollapsingLair: After Blofeld activates a SelfDestructMechanism.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Both played straight and averted. The massive army of ninja towards the end is slaughtered when it initially attacks Blofeld's lair, but incredibly effective once Bond takes a hand and helps out.
** They're slaughtered at the beginning because Blofeld's base has automated defenses, and later they can only come in a few at a time when Bond manages to open the crater hatch. To their credit, they then blow a hole in it so SPECTRE can't simply close it again.
* CoolPlane: "Little Nellie"; actually a gyrocopter
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:Poor Aki.]]
* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:Poor Henderson.]]
* DoubleTake: Osato when he sees Bond in the SPECTRE control room.
* TheDragon: Hans
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Bond and two escaped astronauts in white SPECTRE security uniforms.
* DrugsAreBad: A surprisingly early allegory on cigarettes.
-->'''Blofeld''': It won't be the nicotine that kills you, Mr. Bond.
** Inverted with the rocket bullet cigarettes.
-->'''Tanaka:''' "These cigarettes may save your life."
* DuelingScar: This version of Blofeld has one.
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: The SPECTRE launch facility. Entirely apart from all the side tunnels, the main set is ''staggeringly'' huge.
* 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''.
* FakingTheDead: Bond in the beginning, complete with through-and-through bullet holes and fake blood.
* 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.
* {{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 Tiger's bath servants.
** They even apply the Japanese makeup to Bond in an operating theater wearing bikinis!
* FastRoping: This is how Tiger Tanaka's ninjas descend into Blofeld's volcano base.
* 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...).
* FiveBadBand:
** TheBigBad: Blofeld.
** TheDragon: Hans.
** TheBrute: Osato's Driver.
** TheEvilGenius: Osato.
** TheDarkChick: Helga Brandt.
* ForkliftFu: The {{mooks}} at the Kobe docks.
* GiantMook: Hans and the Japanese driver who unknowingly picks Bond and takes him to Osato Industries.
* HandSignals: Tiger Tanaka twice uses arm signals with his ninja army.
* IKEAWeaponry: "Little Nellie" is always packed up in kit-form until needed.
* HoYay: Of a sort. Bond's password to meet his contact in Japan is "I love you", which leads to the following exchange:
-->'''Bond:''' "If you're Tanaka, then how do you feel about me?"
-->'''Tanaka:''' "I...love you."
-->'''Bond:''' "I'm glad we've got that out of the way."
* InNameOnly: The movie has extremely little in common with the novel by Ian Fleming - though the novel was considered completely unfilmable.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: As the page quote shows, the warriors sent to help Bond storm the enemy base.
* KatanasAreJustBetter - 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.
* [[BlackLikeMe Japanese Like Me]]: Bond's disguise as a Japanese fisherman.
* KidnappedByAnAlly: For some reason, Tanaka decides not to just send Bond a polite note.
* LastRequest: Bond - but he escapes of course.
* LockAndLoadMontage: The scene where "Little Nellie" gets assembled.
* MuggedForDisguise: How Bond and the cosmonauts got their SPECTRE uniforms.
* NeckSnap: Bond uses it to kill the assassin who killed Henderson.
* 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.
* OneLastSmoke
* OneSceneWonder: After he reveals himself to Bond, Blofeld is only in a couple of scenes, yet he manages to be one of the most memorable villains in any Bond film.
* TheOner: An extended helicopter tracking shot as Bond runs across a roof fighting SPECTRE minions.
* OvertRendezvous: Bond meets with his Japanese Secret Service contact at a sumo match.
* PaperThinDisguise - "Japanese Bond". It's a nod to the novel, where Bond really manages to look Japanese...somehow. He even fools Blofeld for a while after being captured.
* PiranhaProblem: Blofeld kept a piranha pond in his underground lair - handy for getting rid of failed employees.
* PlayingBothSides: SPECTRE is stealing American and Soviet spacecrafts to provoke a war.
* RailingKill: Happens a lot during the big battle at the end.
* 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, ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', but its ''this'' one that is actually based in space.
* RefugeInAudacity: While planning the car chase, Dana Broccoli (wife of one of the producers) suggested on having one of the cars being removed by a helicopter with a magnet. And they followed suit.
* RevealingCoverup: SPECTRE, repeatedly.
* RightHandCat - this is probably the trope maker, though Blofeld's cat had been featured before.
* RoaldDahl: wrote the movie's screenplay.
* {{Safecracking}}: Bond breaks into a safe at the Osato Chemical Company.
* SceneryPorn: Spectacular aerial footage of Japan.
* SelfDestructMechanism - see BigRedButton above.
** Sort-of used by Bond himself (making clever use of a geyser) in the novel.
* SentryGun: The crater guns Blofeld used against Tanaka's ninja army.
* SharkPool - Instead of sharks, there are piranha.
* SicEm: Osato tells Number 11 "Kill him!'' and Blofeld says "Kill Bond! Now!"
* TheSpeechless - Hans.
* StormingTheCastle: the {{ninja}} attack on the volcanic hideout.
* SupervillainLair - 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.
** It's certainly lovingly parodied in the second AustinPowers movie, with entire sets recreated very closely.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Two scenes (in Aki's car and Blofeld's lair) have filmed footage that just evokes FridgeLogic.
* TapOnTheHead: A {{mook}} to Bond at the Kobe docks and Bond/astronauts to SPECTRE guards.
* TitleDrop: Blofeld says "You only live twice, Mr. Bond."
** In the book, it's part of a haiku Bond composes.
* TokyoTower: can be seen in a background shot when the helicopter picks up the car full of EvilMinions.
* TrapDoor - Blofeld has a bridge that collapses on command, dropping whatever is on it into the piranha-infested water. Also subverted when Japanese Secret Service chief Tiger Tanaka uses one of these (plus a slide) on Bond.
* WarForFunAndProfit: Blofeld is being paid to start WorldWarThree between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., apparently by agents of RedChina.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Say, did those American and Soviet astronauts ever make it back home?
* YouHaveFailedMe
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!!The 1964 novel contains examples of:
* AwesomeAussie: Dikko Henderson, though his awesomeness largely revolves around consuming grossly large quantities of alcohol.
* CliffHanger
* DevilInPlainSight: Blofeld in his Dr. Shatterhand guise, however; as penitent suicide has such an honoured place in Japan (especially as portrayed by Fleming), no-one bar Tiger Tanaka is in a hurry to do anything about him.
* GardenOfEvil: The Garden of Death, created by Blofeld as a mecca for suicidal Japanese. [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou It lives up to its name]].
* HannibalLecture: Blofeld subjects Bond to one of these; 007 answers him in the [[KilledOffForReal bluntest and most terminal way possible]].
* HeroicBSOD: Bond is going through one at the novel's start as a result of the [[OnHerMajestysSecretService previous book's events]].
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Bond's obituary makes reference to a series of "[[TakeThatMe sensationalistic novels]]" written about Bond's life.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Partially averted. Bond initially has no interest in tracking down Blofeld until he discovers he's behind the Garden of Death, after which he quickly makes his death his number one priority.
* SanitySlippage: Blofeld has suffered one of these; his ego has bloated to BeyondTheImpossible levels and his formerly calm speech has been replaced by a [[NoIndoorVoice Hitleresque bark]].
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