Tag: You Only Live Twice

In You Only Live Twice, Bond and Kissy Suzuki stand slack-jawed as 007 realizes the caldera lake isn’t water at all.  It’s metal, and retractable to boot, and one of production designer Ken Adam’s masterpieces.  The volcano lair remains one… Read More →

I can only imagine the awesomeness of seeing You Only Live Twice in theaters for the first time in 1967.  Blofeld’s grandiose volcano lair must have been a spectacle to behold!  What an accomplishment in set design by Ken Adam,… Read More →

Blofeld’s warning to Bond quoting the movie’s title is probably the best of them.  Way better than the “view…to a kill!” which seemed forced and didn’t really make much sense! Read More →

Blofeld’s patience wears thin with Osato and Helga Brandt’s failure to stop Bond in You Only Live Twice – to the point where he literally sends Brandt to the fishes (piranhas).  Osato is lucky – he definitely thought he was… Read More →

Quite the Japanese proverb, Bond.  And referencing it regarding your chest hair – also a choice.  It’s relevant I guess, just always struck me as odd. Read More →

Bond and Tiger Tanaka’s conversation in You Only Live Twice about Ning Po’s contents was enlightening.  I’d never heard liquid oxygen referred to as lox before.  You learn something new every Bond movie! Also the smoked salmon is gross! Read More →

Definitely in my top five favorite James Bond movie locations! Read More →

I mean, can you blame me? Read More →