James Bond in film Bloom, although he was later replaced by Roald Dahl, who had little previous screenwriting experience. "You Only Live Twice" was the first Bond film to jettison the plot premise of the Fleming source material, although the film retains the title, the Japanese setting, the use of Blofeld as the main villain and a Bond girl named Kissy Suzuki from the novel. Filming commenced at Pinewood on 4 July 1966 before moving out to Japan on 27 July for six weeks' filming. Local Japanese interest in the filming was high, and the crew had to contend with large crowds throughout the
You Only Live Twice (novel) motif. If you could manage a pink dragonfly sitting on the flowers, and perhaps just one epicanthic eye peering through them he thinks that will be just splendid!" Chopping's fee rose to 300 guineas for the cover, a rise from the 250 guineas he received for "The Spy Who Loved Me". "You Only Live Twice" was published in the United States by New American Library in August 1964; it was 240 pages long and cost $4.50. Cyril Connolly, reviewing "You Only Live Twice" in "The Sunday Times" wrote that Fleming's latest book was "reactionary, sentimental, square, the Bond-image flails its