Inside the sumo hall Ryogoku Kokugikan. The first location in Japan that the original big screen James Bond, Sean Connery, visits in You Only Live Twice is Ryogoku Kokugikan, the National Sumo Stadium. This is where the Grand Sumo Tournament is held three times a year. Actor Sean Connery as James Bond, with "Bond girls" Kim Basinger (left) and Barbara Carrera, in a scene from the film "Never Say Never Again," in 1983. But on his way to Japan to shoot the Look, for instance, at the finale of "You Only Live Twice," from 1967, Connery's fifth outing as James Bond. (Volcano, ninjas, rocket launch, white pussycat: you know the deal.) The schoolboy humor of the James Bond films feels particularly dated at times. While Sean Connery and George Lazenby carried it well enough, Pierce Brosnan struggled and Craig mostly forgoes the juvenile quips. But Moneypenny was given her chance to be crudely amusing in one scene in Tomorrow Never Dies. This showed she could keep up with the A US soldier undergoes plastic surgery to look Japanese in order to rescue an American scientist held in Japan. 1962: My Geisha: Shirley MacLaine: Jack Cardiff: 1967: You Only Live Twice: Sean Connery: Lewis Gilbert: James Bond disguises himself as a Japanese bridegroom in order to elude SPECTRE assassins. 1978: Revenge of the Pink Panther From left: Connery enjoys a cocktail in Tokyo during filming of "You Only Live Twice" in July 1966; "James Bond" author Ian Fleming; Sean Connery on the set of "You Only Live Twice" in Sean Connery in the second James Bond film, From Russia With Love, 1963. Bond is given a book called Instant Japanese by Miss Moneypenny before being sent to the far east. "You forget," he The wonderful Sean Connery has created many indelible screen characterizations over his very long career, having made his debut in 1958. Mr. Connery has spent a career proving that he was more than just the consummate James Bond, and succeeded marvelously. But, to most film lovers, including myself, Connery was the only Bond; there was Connery TL;DR: I've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the long-running fan theory that Michael Bay's The Rock is the last chapter of Sean Connery's run as James Bond 007, and have come up with a full narrative that is completely consistent with the continuity of the six Connery Bond films, Connery's backstory in The Rock, and actual world history. If you'd rather watch a video than read a Blofeld : You only live twice, Mr. Bond. James Bond : [DELETED LINE] Well, they say twice is the only way to live. [Bond has just sent Blofeld's henchman into the water. The piranhas immediately attack him] James Bond : Bon appetit! Tiger Tanaka : My friend, now you take your first civilized bath. 64djW.