In episode 05, the hosts discuss 1967’s You Only Live Twice. Adapted for the screen by Roald Dahl and directed by Lewis Gilbert, the film stars Sean Connery in what was intended to be his final performance as James Bond. After a NASA spaceship is stolen from orbit by a mysterious craft, world powers blame each other for the attack. Bond fakes his own death in order to go undercover in Japan to investigate. Will Bond untangle the plot before the USSR and the US go to war? The film features Akiko Wakabayashi as Aki, Tetsuro Tamba (dubbed by Robert Rietty) as Tiger Tanaka, Mie Hama as Kissy Suzuki (dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl), and Donald Pleasance as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the character’s first appearance from the neck up.

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