You Only Live Twice (film) Northern soul scene (Chandler was well known for her high-quality soul output on RCA) and can be found on several RCA soul compilations. To promote the film, Eon Productions produced a one-hour colour television programme titled "Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond" first aired on 2 June 1967 in the United States on NBC. Bond regulars Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn appeared playing respectively "Miss Moneypenny" and "Q". Kate O'Mara appears as Miss Moneypenny's assistant. The programme shows clips from "You Only Live Twice" and the then four existing Bond films, and contained a storyline of Moneypenny trying to establish the
You Only Live Twice (film) it had pace and spectacle. Christopher Null considered the film one of James Bond's most memorable adventures, but the plot "protracting and quite confusing". Ali Barclay of "BBC Films" panned Dahl's script displaying "a whole new world of villainy and technology." Leo Goldsmith lauded the volcano base as "the most impressive of Ken Adam's sets for the franchise." Danny Peary wrote that "You Only Live Twice" "should have been about twenty minutes shorter" and described it as "not a bad Bond film, but it doesn't compare to its predecessors — the formula had become a little stale." IGN ranked "You