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You Only Live Twice (1967)

How’s that for Japanese efficiency?

Tiger Tanaka’s dispatch of Bond and Aki’s pursuers in You Only Live Twice is very satisfying. Instead of sending backup in the form of another car, he instead sends a helicopter to magnetically pick up the pursuers’ car and fantastically drop them into the ocean.

Bond notes this, with a play on words of an answer for Tiger that doesn’t make too much sense: “Just a drop in the ocean.” I mean I get that the “drop” can refer to dropping the car into the ocean, but at its face, the response doesn’t make sense without the action. Japanese efficiency is just a drop in the ocean? Huh? This is an example of a James Bond Forced Quip.