Product Details

• Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba, Teru Shimada
• Directors: Lewis Gilbert
• Writers: Harold Jack Bloom, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl
• Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Stanley Sopel
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese, Russian
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: October 17, 2000
• Run Time: 117 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (148 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302380588
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,836 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The film boasts the best of the Bond title songs (this one sung on a dreamy track by Nancy Sinatra), but the movie itself is one of the weaker ones of the Sean Connery phase of the 007 franchise. The story concerns an effort by the evil organization SPECTRE to start a world war, but the not-so-super villain behind the plot is the awfully civilized Donald Pleasence. The thin script is by Roald Dahl (shouldn't we have expected a better Bond nemesis from the creator of mad genius Willy Wonka?), and direction is by British veteran Lewis Gilbert (Alfie). But the movie can't hold a candle to Dr. No, From Russia with Love, or Goldfinger. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't understand why others have problems with it., December 12, 1999

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Cheated (California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Only Live Twice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I love this picture. The previous reviewers had problems with it. It has everything a Bond picture should have. The scenery is magnificent, the gadgets are up to standard, the production quality is as good as the previous Bond efforts, the villain is a typical jerk, and the title song sung by Nancy Sinatra is the best I've ever heard in a Bond picture.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS IT THE MASTERPIECE BOND MOVIE, April 3, 2009

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Jonsam Friedman "Symbilbooks" (Orlando, Fl USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Only Live Twice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I believe after watching almost all the Bond films, this is the one masterpiece from beginning to end in this genre. There were no mistakes, no farcical annoyances like you find in Roger Moore's or modern Bond films. No mistakes, this film does not play in anyway, perfect from beginning to end--- as a 007 movie should be. This in fact should be what every Bond movie strives for, alas they all fall short. Perfect like well-cut diamond this is the real McCoy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exotic and original, May 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: You Only Live Twice [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This film is best appreciated if you put yourself in the seat of a viewer at the time the film was released. At that time, the film (1) featured an original spy plot (confused antagonists threaten each other on basis of acts of interloper -- a space craft-eating space craft,) and (2) introduced the idea that Japan is technologically advanced and has some cultural personality that is distinct from the U.S. I can't remember an earlier mainstream U.S. film that had ninjas or suggested that Japan could potentially launch a space craft. There is plenty of action, including an interesting if somewhat low budget looking helicopter dog fight. Finally, the sound track is excellent. The film was original and entertaining when released. You can't beat that.