You Only Live Twice - Location Help
NinjaKid
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Hi folks, first time post.
I'm trying to confirm some slightly obscure filming locations from the JB films and was wondering if anyone can help with the from YOLT:
Cut to twice during the opening space scene.
Probably a set, Ling's apartment
Scene outside Ling's apartment as the MPs arrive to find Bond dead.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also about to post some shots from Thunderball.
I'm trying to confirm some slightly obscure filming locations from the JB films and was wondering if anyone can help with the from YOLT:
Cut to twice during the opening space scene.
Probably a set, Ling's apartment
Scene outside Ling's apartment as the MPs arrive to find Bond dead.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also about to post some shots from Thunderball.
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Cant tell with Number 3 though.
I would like to see Bond return to Japan, it's a location that is criminally underused in Western made Films.
My question is for the real experts:
Does anyone know where the fight in Dick Henderson's garden took place in YOLT? And where Henderson's house was? Is it in Tokyo? Would be good to check these locations out. Next weekend I will visit the subway station where Bond first meets Tiger Tanaka
1. Connery 2. Craig 3. Brosnan 4. Dalton 5. Lazenby 6. Moore
I don't know where the third picture is exactly, but I know where it isn't. It isn't Japan.
None of those signs are written in Japanese.
And, it looks as if the cars are being driven on the right.
One of the red neon signs (written horizontally, toward the photograph's top right corner) says "Mayflower Restaurant" in Chinese.
She typed that in and was forwarded to the following site.
We don't read Chinese, but it seems to be a web site spotting Bond locations. My wife translated what she could (guessed).
It seems to say that the photograph was taken in Hong Kong in 1967 on Road 611-615A.
Osato San,
Where is the station that Bond met Tanaka. I'd like to visit.
http://bond.web.idv.hk/bond/xtour3.php
At he summit/crisis talks after Bird One swallows the US space capsule, the UK delegate says "our Singapore tracking station caught faint echoes of it coming down in the Sea of Japan... That's where we will start to look. As a matter if fact, our man n Hong Kong is working on it now...".
Cut to shot of Bond in bed with Ling, and the immortal line "Why do chinese girls taste different to all other girls?"
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Thanks Charmed & Dangerous.
Well I answered a third of Ninja Kid's question anyway.
I just finished reading You Only Live Twice, but I haven't seen the movie since I was a child, and I don't have any James Bond movies with me in Japan. So, I got the wrong end of the stick a bit, and also have to ask Osato San where the subway station is.
This is the station where Tanaka was hiding. It is surprisingly still very much the same.
Nakano Shimbashi station, Marunouchi Line, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Any idea where Mr Henderson's house was located in Japan?
1. Connery 2. Craig 3. Brosnan 4. Dalton 5. Lazenby 6. Moore
Wakarimashita.
Domo arigato gozaimasu.
That should be just a few stops from Shinjuku. My wife and I shall enjoy a visit shortly. That'll make a nice Sunday afternoon; get to Shimbashi, lunch, visit the station, a few photos and finish off in a pub.
Think I'll have to visit Tsutaya and get a copy of "You Only live Twice" first so that I know what I'm looking at when I get there.
I've only read the book and the meet at the station doesn't appear. So this was a stroke of luck finding out about this movie location on my doorstep. Absolutely terrific.
Thanks very much for the reply.
Ta-Ta.
M.
Enjoy yourself. And yes, get a copy of YOLT A.S.A.P!! You will see other locations in Tokyo that are still very much in-tact.
1. Connery 2. Craig 3. Brosnan 4. Dalton 5. Lazenby 6. Moore