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Released
1967 · FILM

You Only Live Twice

James Bond investigates the mysterious hijacking of a U.S. spacecraft in Tokyo, where deception, murder, and Cold War tensions blur the lines between ally and enemy.

“...and "twice" is the only way to live!”

Directed by
Lewis Gilbert
Written by
Harold Jack Bloom, Roald Dahl
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
117 min
ActionAdventureThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules, bringing the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan, where he comes face to face with his archenemy, Blofeld.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 51+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter R HuntShot by Freddie YoungScored by John BarryDesigned by Ken Adam

Box Office

1967 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$111.6M

Budget$9.5M
Worldwide gross$111.6M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • James Bond 007 - Man lebt nur zweimalde
  • Man lebt nur zweimalde
  • Sólo se vive dos veceses
  • On ne vit que deux foisfr
  • Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volteit

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