Action & Adventure > 1967 Action & Adventure

Advantages: Connery at this best
Disadvantages: You'll think of Austin Powers when you see this

...and the new Bond film, You Only Live Twice had its world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on 12th June 1967. The title is taken from Ian Fleming's twelfth novel and the plot point of Bond being 'killed' so he can continue to work undercover, with his enemies assuming he is dead and out of the picture. The title is uttered by Blofeld when he realises Bond was not assassinated in Hong Kong after all. In the novel Bond goes after Blofeld to get ...
...being a Bond girl and you do feel that her character and Bond have a spark. Tiger Tanaka is played by Tetsuro Tamba, a well known Japanese film actor. This was one of the only times that he appeared in an English speaking film as the Japanese counterpart of M. Although is voice was dubbed over, he does carry a screen presence when on screen with Connery, and in the attack on the Volcano can show he can handle himself in a fight. Kissy Suzuki is ... Read review

Advantages: terrific feel of tokyo,great title song,good action sequences
Disadvantages: gadgets sometimes overshadow the story

You only live twice was released in 1967 and was the fifth outing for Sean connery as agent 007.He had become an international star after the first four bonds[ DR NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE,GOLDFINGER AND THUNDERBALL] had all become huge box office hits.However he had become disillusioned with the role fearing it would typecast him as an actor.He had announced that Twice would be his final Bond film.It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and was scripted ...
...title of the film of You only live twice.It is a clever idea which works nicely.The title song sung by Nancy sinatra is great to listen to and its appeal is enhanced by a lush soundtrack score by John barry.Interestlingly a sample of the title track was mixed into Robbie williams 1998 song Millenium for catchy results.After bond has literally come back from the dead he is assigned to find out was been happening to missing american and russian spaceships.This ... Read review

Advantages: Great atmospheric and artistic Bond film
Disadvantages: Nothing really

...in 1967 with this offering, You Only Live Twice, once again starring the charismatic Sean Connery, but with Lewis Gilbert in the director's chair for this one. The Plot With the Cold War ever intense, criminal organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E. tries another tack. American and Russian spacecraft have disappeared in outer space, and they are blaming each other. Anxious to avoid all out war, Bond is dispatched to Japan to seek out the perpetrators. This ...
...enter into a relationship. You Only Live Twice was filmed almost entirely on location in Japan, and the filming is done marvellously, capturing the beauty of the countryside and the mountains and castles. The Japanese music employed in the film also sets the scene and the mood in all sequences. The acting and directing is also done very well, and I found myself enjoying this film from an angle different to that of a Bond film, more from a critical ... Read review

Advantages: Superb direction, excellent acting
Disadvantages: Graphic violence

Bonnie and Clyde should be considered one of the great ground breaking movies and not just for some of the cinema effects used. Bonnie and Clyde as directed by Arthur Penn told the story not from the side of law enforcement but from the side of the villains. By doing so the crimes of the couple were romanticised and the law enforcers were portrayed as variously stupid and finally cruel. The film continued the development of Warren Beatty as a Hollywood ...
...which charted ‘The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde’ and the establishment of crossover culture in fashion and music from the cinema was born. This was the probably the first time that cinema was used in this way where previously the crossover had been from pop artists making films such as Elvis, Cliff Richard etc. The pace and direction of the film are superb and long before the spellbinding and closing end sequence you are gripped by the ... Read review

Advantages: Totally bizarre experience, yet outstanding
Disadvantages: Could be too bizarre for some

Hanada Goro. Number 3 ranked killer. He loves the smell of rice. Yes that's right, rice. This film is totally surreal, posing as some sort of 60's hitman movie, but its more than that. Infact, the director, Seijun Suzuki got fired by Nikkatsu Studios because this film was simply too weird for them. The story starts of with Hanada deciding to help out a friend, a former ranked hitman, by taking up a job that involves being some sort of bodyguard. ...
...the waiter to cook some rice, and proceeds to the kitchen to do some sniffing, while unknown to him his wife is being groped by the man from whom he accepted the job from. He encounters trouble, in the form of Number 2, whom he proceeds to succeed by setting him alight. Now that he his Number 2, he takes a lift back home. The driver is an attractive lady, Misako, with whom Hanada falls for. Hanada has another job offer, which he accepts. The manner ... Read review