You Only Live Twice (film) declined the offer to direct, but accepted after producer Albert R. Broccoli called him saying: "You can't give up this job. It's the largest audience in the world." Peter R. Hunt, who edited the first five Bond films, believed that Gilbert had been contracted by the producers for other work but they found they had to use him. Gilbert, producers Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, production designer Ken Adam and director of photography Freddie Young then went to Japan, spending three weeks searching for locations. SPECTRE's shore fortress headquarters was changed to an extinct volcano after the team learned that the
You Only Live Twice (film) but Bond eludes the henchmen until Aki gets away; however, Bond is captured. He wakes, tied up in SPECTRE operative Helga Brandt's cabin on the "Ning-Po". In a sexy cocktail dress, she interrogates Bond, but he thinks of managing to bribe his way to freedom when she suddenly chooses to enjoy herself by kissing and freeing him in order to have sex. Brandt flies Bond to Tokyo the next day, but en route she sets off a flare in the plane and bails out, finally persuaded to kill him. Bond manages to land the plane. After finding out where the