This was my 2nd favorite Bond film, after On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The story and action was very good, the space/Volcano theme was cool, and Bond Girl Aki was the best.
Freddie Young, B.S.C., who lensed LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, shot this too and (save some dated visual effects) is one of the best-looking Bonds and action films ever made.
First Bond film I saw way back in about 68 when I was 4 on holiday in Devon England. They showed it in a marquee on the caravan site we stopped at. I always liked it I thought the Toyota sports car looked cool, the girls were gorgeous and of course it was my ages Bond Sean Connery. I know he had a lousy time in Japan and was fed up with the stardom even though he certainly enjoyed some aspects eg the women he slept with and the money. Donald Pleasance was great and is my favourite Blofeld. I also thought the opening when Bond is ‘killed’ was great along with Little Nellie which as a kid I loved. The worst aspect for me was turning Connery Japanese but overall it’s one of my favourites.
The Hong Kong cop who says ‘he would have wanted it that way’ is Brian Wilde who played mr Barraclough in the classic Porridge and Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine.
As far as I remember the Sony logo first popped up in Goldfinger on the mini radar screen in the car when Bond was following Goldfinger in Switzerland rather then YOLT.
I like a lot of what's in this, it's a much more fun time than Thunderball. But there are a lot of (vocal) bond fans who really connect only with the really serious films. Which is about 4 of them.
it's my favourite of the Connery films, but it's clear he's just going through the motions and seems disinterested. the stunning sets and location make up for that though
Lewis Gilbert (Sean Connery - Michael Feeney Callan Book) says. I tried to give Bond a human dimension by introducing the emotion, when Aki is murdered. But Sean had such a stain to put up with, with the fans. Once when we tried to do a simple shot of him, walking down the Ginza we decided the safest way was to hide our camera, let him slip out of the car and amble past - let him vanish in the street strollers. We tried, Gilbert laughs loud. But Sean got out of the car....and was just pounced upon by a million fans. It was a feeding frenzy, a nightmare.
I only really felt sympathy for Connery's stardom affecting his life when they filmed this movie in Japan. It does not sound like it was at all a pleasant experience for him.
You forgot danger man aka secret agent man with that great song by johnny rivers which begat the prisoner theory being that both agents were john drake. Other than that your video was great!🖒
@@StamFine And, the Saint wasn't a spy series, per se, but an adventure series, with a professional thief, on the side of angels. Close enough though, as it progressed. The Fiction Makers two-parter, later edited into a movie, is a terrific spoof of the Bond series.
Did anyone spot the Vapours reference ? Great placement. I’m bingeing all your vids and can’t believe you haven’t got more subs. This is one of the best things on UA-cam far better than other review sites and right up there with cinema sins.
The movie was remade 10 years later as The Spy Who Loved Me, they just substituted a submarine swallowing oil tanker for the space capsules and the same director Lewis Gilbert.
YOLT always gets average/poor ratings by UA-camrs but I haven’t found anyone irl who didn’t rate it very highly. I think the difference is whether people saw it before all the Bond parodies or not. Also, every UA-camr comments on Bond disguised as a Japanese guy, which is a very minor part of the film. They make it clear it’s only meant to fool people when he’s out spying in his fishing boat. Anyway, the villains try to kill him immediately so it’s also clear that it doesn’t work in-movie either.
Despite the fact that there are so many YIKES moments in this movie, I will always have a soft spot for it. It’s SO Austin Powers! You can see most of Mike Mire’s material comes from this one. Donald Pleasnce is Dr Evil. 😊👍
Why on earth would it be offensive for Bond to go undercover as a Japanese fisherman? He is a SPY after all. What a weird review. This is a Bond-classic. And Roald Dahl did not invent the formula for the Bond girls.
If anything the bride selection scene should've been the one thing about this movie that doesn't hold up to "modern audiences". Bond is presented with several Japanese women and he literally goes "yikes" when he see some of them 😂
Thunderball is my least favourite Bond film of the 60s. Just so mediocre compared to everything else. You Only Live Twice makes the most of its premise and locations.
Donald Pleasance was a last-minute substitute for whom ??? If you are going to enlighten us then please be complete about it. Great job as usual, with that very small exception.
Donald Pleasant replaced Czech actor Jan Werich who the producers felt looked too much like a kindly Father Christmas figure.. It gets a mention on the making of section of the DVD/ blu ray
YOLT is one of my top 5. I seem to be an outlier on this. Most recent UA-cam Bond authorities put it near the bottom. My argument? While Connery looks bored in both, at least YOLT has a great screenplay unlike the yawner Thunderball.
The reason this is the greatest Bond film ever? Three words: ninja commando raid! Need more convincing? Two more: volcano fortress. Add Karin Dor, Donald Pleasance, Burt Kwouk , Shane Rimmer pronouncing is Hoo-ston instead of Hugh-ston, and a Russian controller who would become a German wehrmacht officer, who is hiding a stolen painting of the madonna with big boobies and you have an awesome film. The rocket guns were real; but, they had a flaw. If you held a piece of cardboard against the muzzle, the projectiles could not penetrate it and leave the barrel of the weapon. The projectiles needed distance to gain enough velocity to be lethal and the military rejected it. The guy that Bond hits with a couch, in Osato's office, at night, is Peter Maivia, the grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who was a Samoan pro wrestler and promoter, in Hawaii.
There are many problems in this film. From here, Connery's relationships with producers are getting very bad, and Connery is mentally and physically tired of Japanese journalists, the distances for the filming and high temperature (he had dehydration). The Gemini project (U.S.A. spacecraft stolen from Blofeld) was completed in November 1966, seven months before the film premiere. The U.S.A. Space Program has been suspended and is being challenged after the tragedy of Apollo 1 in January 1967. Vietnam War and other social problems have led many people - especially the young - to challenge, deny and break with the world that represents Bond. The reason that two years later Lazenby left the role. For viewers they were very innovative effects (they deserve Oscar). Many spy films after the success of Bond and another Bond film (''Casino Royale'' April 1967). After ten years ''The Spy Who Loved Me''(a remake of Y.O.L.T.) with more attention to details, had great success.
I've enjoyed all the StF reviews of the Bonds, but this one is like Diamonds Are Forever...the solitary crap one. Factual errors everywhere - the worst one being that Twice is not even the _second to_ last Bond novel, being followed as it was by Golden Gun and Daylights. The never funny cute kitty joke is now *extremely* tiresome, and bizarrely there is no mention of how Cubs Broccoli and co were spared by dumb luck from dying in a terrible plane crash after a pre-shoot location recce in Japan. Total dog shit.
This was my 2nd favorite Bond film, after On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
The story and action was very good, the space/Volcano theme was cool, and Bond Girl Aki was the best.
Score from the start of this, the space jacking sequence was truly awesome. Still listen to it every now and again.
Propellerheads used this - along with music from OHMSS - for a wonderful suite on their one and only LP.
Goldfinger was my favourite Connery Bond and this was second favourite. It still has lots of charm an£ entertainment value after all these years.
Freddie Young, B.S.C., who lensed LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, shot this too and (save some dated visual effects) is one of the best-looking Bonds and action films ever made.
6:58 "Neil Connery was not an actor, but he had the magic name: Neil."
The magic name is connery
The policeman who says at least he died on the job @1:55 is Anthony Ainley who later when on to play The Master in Doctor Who
Yep!
First Bond film I saw way back in about 68 when I was 4 on holiday in Devon England. They showed it in a marquee on the caravan site we stopped at.
I always liked it I thought the Toyota sports car looked cool, the girls were gorgeous and of course it was my ages Bond Sean Connery.
I know he had a lousy time in Japan and was fed up with the stardom even though he certainly enjoyed some aspects eg the women he slept with and the money.
Donald Pleasance was great and is my favourite Blofeld. I also thought the opening when Bond is ‘killed’ was great along with Little Nellie which as a kid I loved.
The worst aspect for me was turning Connery Japanese but overall it’s one of my favourites.
The Hong Kong cop who says ‘he would have wanted it that way’ is Brian Wilde who played mr Barraclough in the classic Porridge and Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine.
As far as I remember the Sony logo first popped up in Goldfinger on the mini radar screen in the car when Bond was following Goldfinger in Switzerland rather then YOLT.
Imitation is the sincerest form of Connery.
My life is a failure because I never got to live in a hollowed-out volcano...
I hear the rent is cheap, and warm in winter, but the wi-fi coverage is spotty.
Very good. Despite you saying that many consider this to be an average James Bond film, for me it is my favourite.
I like a lot of what's in this, it's a much more fun time than Thunderball. But there are a lot of (vocal) bond fans who really connect only with the really serious films. Which is about 4 of them.
Me too.
it's my favourite of the Connery films, but it's clear he's just going through the motions and seems disinterested. the stunning sets and location make up for that though
You should do a review of Deadlier Than the Male (1967) and its sequel Some Girls Do (1969) and the I Spy series.
I was surprised when I learned that Donald Pleasence only played the role of Blofeld once. Iconic.
The scar came from a bad encounter from Michael Myers.
@@haakenbailey7381 G.I. Joes's scar came from Barbie.
I heard he never cared for the role.
You really deserve higher viewing numbers I really enjoy your videos you are informative and funny. Fingers crossed your channel keeps growing 👍
Thanks!
It was 18 months between Thunderball and YOLT, not two years.
Lewis Gilbert (Sean Connery - Michael Feeney Callan Book) says. I tried to give Bond a human dimension by introducing the emotion, when Aki is murdered. But Sean had such a stain to put up with, with the fans. Once when we tried to do a simple shot of him, walking down the Ginza we decided the safest way was to hide our camera, let him slip out of the car and amble past - let him vanish in the street strollers. We tried, Gilbert laughs loud. But Sean got out of the car....and was just pounced upon by a million fans. It was a feeding frenzy, a nightmare.
I only really felt sympathy for Connery's stardom affecting his life when they filmed this movie in Japan. It does not sound like it was at all a pleasant experience for him.
You forgot danger man aka secret agent man with that great song by johnny rivers which begat the prisoner theory being that both agents were john drake. Other than that your video was great!🖒
Lol.
@@StamFine And, the Saint wasn't a spy series, per se, but an adventure series, with a professional thief, on the side of angels. Close enough though, as it progressed. The Fiction Makers two-parter, later edited into a movie, is a terrific spoof of the Bond series.
Twice wasn't Flemmings last novel, just the last one featuring spectre/blofield
5:04 - well, he did take a second in Oriental languages in cambridge
Did anyone spot the Vapours reference ? Great placement. I’m bingeing all your vids and can’t believe you haven’t got more subs. This is one of the best things on UA-cam far better than other review sites and right up there with cinema sins.
The movie was remade 10 years later as The Spy Who Loved Me, they just substituted a submarine swallowing oil tanker for the space capsules and the same director Lewis Gilbert.
YOLT always gets average/poor ratings by UA-camrs but I haven’t found anyone irl who didn’t rate it very highly. I think the difference is whether people saw it before all the Bond parodies or not. Also, every UA-camr comments on Bond disguised as a Japanese guy, which is a very minor part of the film. They make it clear it’s only meant to fool people when he’s out spying in his fishing boat. Anyway, the villains try to kill him immediately so it’s also clear that it doesn’t work in-movie either.
Don't care what anybody says - this is my favorite Sean Connery James Bond film.
Despite the fact that there are so many YIKES moments in this movie, I will always have a soft spot for it. It’s SO Austin Powers! You can see most of Mike Mire’s material comes from this one. Donald Pleasnce is Dr Evil. 😊👍
I can’t watch this now without adding “and sometimes not at all” when they say men come first, women come second.
I thought Connery was much more sedate and disinterested in this movie than the last.
Why on earth would it be offensive for Bond to go undercover as a Japanese fisherman? He is a SPY after all.
What a weird review. This is a Bond-classic. And Roald Dahl did not invent the formula for the Bond girls.
If anything the bride selection scene should've been the one thing about this movie that doesn't hold up to "modern audiences". Bond is presented with several Japanese women and he literally goes "yikes" when he see some of them 😂
Wow, I agree with you about the “Turning Japanese” part but YOLT was light years ahead of Thinderball which was the biggest overrated piece of crap.
Thunderball is my least favourite Bond film of the 60s. Just so mediocre compared to everything else. You Only Live Twice makes the most of its premise and locations.
Donald Pleasance was a last-minute substitute for whom ???
If you are going to enlighten us then please be complete about it.
Great job as usual, with that very small exception.
Jan Werich was originally cast as Blofeld, apparently not creepy enough and so the role was quickly recast.
@@StamFine Thank you. I just looked him up and they were probably right. Pleasance always had the ability to act above his stature.
Donald Pleasant replaced Czech actor Jan Werich who the producers felt looked too much like a kindly Father Christmas figure.. It gets a mention on the making of section of the DVD/ blu ray
MY FAVORITE BOND FILM~
YOLT is one of my top 5. I seem to be an outlier on this. Most recent UA-cam Bond authorities put it near the bottom. My argument? While Connery looks bored in both, at least YOLT has a great screenplay unlike the yawner Thunderball.
Nancy Sinatra sang the opening theme song
One of my Top 5 least favourite Bond films...(QoS, OHMSS, and the Dalton films make the list).
The reason this is the greatest Bond film ever? Three words: ninja commando raid! Need more convincing? Two more: volcano fortress. Add Karin Dor, Donald Pleasance, Burt Kwouk , Shane Rimmer pronouncing is Hoo-ston instead of Hugh-ston, and a Russian controller who would become a German wehrmacht officer, who is hiding a stolen painting of the madonna with big boobies and you have an awesome film.
The rocket guns were real; but, they had a flaw. If you held a piece of cardboard against the muzzle, the projectiles could not penetrate it and leave the barrel of the weapon. The projectiles needed distance to gain enough velocity to be lethal and the military rejected it.
The guy that Bond hits with a couch, in Osato's office, at night, is Peter Maivia, the grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who was a Samoan pro wrestler and promoter, in Hawaii.
There are many problems in this film. From here, Connery's relationships with producers are getting very bad, and Connery is mentally and physically tired of Japanese journalists, the distances for the filming and high temperature (he had dehydration). The Gemini project (U.S.A. spacecraft stolen from Blofeld) was completed in November 1966, seven months before the film premiere. The U.S.A. Space Program has been suspended and is being challenged after the tragedy of Apollo 1 in January 1967. Vietnam War and other social problems have led many people - especially the young - to challenge, deny and break with the world that represents Bond. The reason that two years later Lazenby left the role. For viewers they were very innovative effects (they deserve Oscar). Many spy films after the success of Bond and another Bond film (''Casino Royale'' April 1967). After ten years ''The Spy Who Loved Me''(a remake of Y.O.L.T.) with more attention to details, had great success.
Coup de GraSSSS
I've enjoyed all the StF reviews of the Bonds, but this one is like Diamonds Are Forever...the solitary crap one. Factual errors everywhere - the worst one being that Twice is not even the _second to_ last Bond novel, being followed as it was by Golden Gun and Daylights. The never funny cute kitty joke is now *extremely* tiresome, and bizarrely there is no mention of how Cubs Broccoli and co were spared by dumb luck from dying in a terrible plane crash after a pre-shoot location recce in Japan. Total dog shit.