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You Only Live Twice (1967)
Where You Only Live Twice says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
The Hong Kong where Bond dies is Gibraltar and England; the Japan around him is all real, from a hotel to a castle to a fishing village.
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Scenes and places
Bond is shot in a Hong Kong street (1967)
In Hong Kong, Bond shares a quiet moment with a local girl while a spacecraft vanishes in orbit far away. Then killers burst in and he is found dead. The film opens by apparently killing its hero.
Set in Hong Kong — The film opens in Hong Kong, where Bond is found dead after a night with a local girl. Google Maps · Apple Maps
Hong Kong is the hub city of this film's story, though the film spends only its first minutes here.
The sea burial off Hong Kong (1967)
Bond's body is committed to the deep from a Royal Navy ship, and the world thinks 007 is gone. He is fished out by his own side, now free to work in secret.
Set in Waters off Hong Kong — Bond's fake funeral at sea, shown as the waters off Hong Kong.
The ship is a Royal Navy frigate; the sea is not where the story says it is.
Filmed at HMS Tenby off Gibraltar — The sea burial was filmed from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Tenby, then at Gibraltar. The Wikipedia article also names the Bahamas for the retrieval; the point is Gibraltar's representative position, not the exact spot. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The sumo hall in Tokyo (1967)
At a sumo tournament in Tokyo, Bond is approached by Aki, an agent of the Japanese secret service. She slips him a ticket and the password, and he answers with the line London had given him.
Set in Tokyo sumo hall — Bond watches a sumo tournament in Tokyo, where Aki finds him. Google Maps · Apple Maps
The Kuramae Kokugikan was Tokyo's sumo hall until it was replaced; the building is demolished.
Filmed at Kuramae Kokugikan, Tokyo — A sumo match was filmed at Tokyo's sumo hall, the Kuramae Kokugikan, which has since been demolished. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Osato Chemicals break-in (1967)
Dressed as a killer he has just beaten, Bond rides to Osato Chemicals and breaks into the president's office safe. He walks out with secret papers, then has to escape the guards.
Set in Osato Chemicals headquarters — The Tokyo headquarters of Mr. Osato's chemical company, where Bond breaks into the president's safe.
Osato Chemicals is an invented company; its building is a real Tokyo hotel.
Filmed at Hotel New Otani Tokyo — The hotel's exterior stands in for Osato Chemicals, and its gardens were used for the ninja training scenes. The sample photo is a view from the hotel, not of it. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Tanaka's private subway (1967)
Aki spirits Bond away to a secluded subway station. He chases her and drops through a trap door into the office of Tiger Tanaka, the head of the Japanese secret service. Tanaka studies what Bond took from Osato's safe.
Set in Tanaka's private subway station — A secluded subway station that leads to the office of the head of Japanese intelligence.
Nakano-shimbashi is an ordinary stop on the Tokyo Metro's Marunouchi branch.
Filmed at Nakano-shimbashi Station, Tokyo — Tanaka's private subway station was filmed at the Tokyo Metro's Nakano-shimbashi Station. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Tanaka's house (1967)
At Tanaka's home Bond and Tiger weigh who could be launching the missiles from Japan. A private company, they reason, could let a foreign power deny everything, and they land on Osato.
Set in Tanaka's house — Tiger Tanaka's home, where he and Bond talk through who could be behind the missing spacecraft.
Shigetomi-so is a historic ryokan in Kagoshima, now the Shimazu Shigetomisoh Manor.
The Tokyo car chase (1967)
As Bond leaves Osato Chemicals, assassins open fire on him. Aki arrives and pulls him out of the line of fire, and a car chase through the city follows.
Set in Tokyo streets — Bond is shot at in the streets of Tokyo and rescued by Aki, who drives him away.
The Olympic district was built for the 1964 Summer Games.
Filmed at Yoyogi National Gymnasium area, Tokyo — A car chase with a Toyota 2000GT and a Toyota Crown was largely filmed around the 1964 Olympic stadium area; the Japanese Wikipedia names Yoyogi and Komazawa spots instead. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Kobe docks and the Ning-Po (1967)
Bond and Aki drive to Kobe, where the Ning-Po is docked. He is discovered, eludes the henchmen while Aki escapes, but is captured and wakes up in Helga Brandt's cabin on the ship.
Set in Kobe docks — Bond and Aki come to Kobe's docks, where the cargo ship Ning-Po is loading. Google Maps · Apple Maps
Kobe's Pier 8 of the new port collapsed in the 1995 earthquake.
Filmed at Kobe Port, Pier 8 area — Kobe Docks appear when Bond investigates the Ning-Po. The point is the port's representative position, not the pier. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The doomed plane (1967)
Helga Brandt flies Bond to Tokyo, but on the way she sets off a flare inside the plane, seals him in his seat and bails out. Bond manages to land the plane and flees before it explodes.
Set in Skies over Japan — A light aircraft flying Bond to Tokyo, where he is left alone to land it.
The English countryside doubles for Japan here.
Little Nellie against the helicopters (1967)
Flying a small armed autogyro called Little Nellie, Bond scouts the area near a volcano. Four helicopters attack and he destroys them, confirming his suspicions about a nearby base.
Set in Skies near the volcano — Bond flies the armed autogyro Little Nellie near a volcano and is attacked by helicopters.
Little Nellie was a real WA-116 autogyro flown by its inventor, Ken Wallis.
Filmed at Torremolinos, Spain — The final explosion shots were filmed at Torremolinos, found to resemble the Japanese landscape, because explosions were not allowed in a national park in Japan. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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SPECTRE's hollow volcano (1967)
A mysterious spaceship lands in a base hidden inside the volcano, run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld of SPECTRE. Blofeld has been hired to start a war between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Set in SPECTRE's rocket base inside a volcano — A rocket base hidden inside a volcano, from which a spaceship launches and lands.
The producers moved the base to a volcano after learning that the Japanese do not build castles by the sea.
Filmed at Shinmoedake, Kyushu — Mount Shinmoe-dake was used for the exteriors of SPECTRE's headquarters. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Pinewood Studios, England — The interior base, with heliport and monorail, was built on a lot inside Pinewood Studios at a cost of $1 million. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Tanaka's ninja school (1967)
In Kyoto Bond trains with Tanaka's ninjas to prepare for a closer look at the island. Tanaka lays out the plan: become Japanese, train hard to be a ninja, and take a wife for cover.
Set in Ninja training school, Kyoto — Tanaka's ninja training school in the Kyoto area. Google Maps · Apple Maps
Himeji Castle is a UNESCO-listed castle in Hyogo Prefecture, not in Kyoto.
Filmed at Himeji Castle, Hyogo — Himeji Castle in Hyogo Prefecture depicted Tanaka's ninja training camp. The hotel's gardens in Tokyo were also used for ninja training. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at Hotel New Otani Tokyo gardens — The hotel's gardens were used for scenes of the ninja training. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The Shinto wedding (1967)
To pass as a Japanese fisherman on the island, Bond is married to an Ama diver in a staged Shinto ceremony. The wedding gives him cover, and it is all for show.
Set in Shinto shrine wedding — Bond and the Ama diver Kissy Suzuki are wed in a staged Shinto ceremony.
Kumano Nachi Taisha is one of the Kumano Sanzan shrines, on the Kumano pilgrimage routes.
Filmed at Kumano Nachi Taisha, Wakayama — Bond's wedding at a Shinto shrine was filmed in Nachi; the Japanese Wikipedia names the Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine. Single source for the shrine name. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The fishing village of Bond's 'wife' (1967)
Bond is introduced to Kissy Suzuki, who plays his wife, and they settle into her home in the Ama village. From there the pair investigate a cave that leads towards the volcano.
Set in Ama island fishing village — The fishing village on the island where Bond lives with his Ama diver wife.
Akime is a small port village in Bonotsu, Kagoshima, on the coast.
Filmed at Akime, Bonotsu, Kagoshima — The village of Bonotsucho Akime is where Bond and his Ama wife lived and where the Ama scenes were shot. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Characters
- James Bond — MI6 agent who fakes his own death in Hong Kong and is sent to Japan to find a missing spacecraft.
- Aki — Japanese secret service agent who meets Bond at the sumo tournament and takes him to Tanaka.
- Tiger Tanaka — Head of the Japanese secret service, who trains Bond and sends him to the island.
- Kissy Suzuki — Tanaka's student, an Ama diver who plays Bond's wife on the island.
Questions answered on the map
- Where was Bond's Hong Kong funeral really filmed?
- Which Tokyo hotel stands in for Osato Chemicals?
- Where was Little Nellie's helicopter fight really finished?
- Where is SPECTRE's volcano base in real life?
- Where were the ninja school and the Shinto wedding filmed?