You Only Live Twice (film) British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investigate, MI6 operative James Bond is sent to Tokyo after faking his own death in Hong Kong and being buried at sea from . Upon his arrival, Bond meets a mysterious Japanese woman while watching sumo. She introduces Bond to local MI6 operative Dikko Henderson. Henderson claims to have critical evidence about the rogue craft, but is killed before he can elaborate. Bond chases and kills the assailant, taking the assailant's clothing as a disguise and escapes in the getaway car, which goes to Osato Chemicals.
You Only Live Twice (novel) Muggeridge, writing in "Esquire" magazine disagreed, writing that ""You Only Live Twice" has a decidedly perfunctory air. Bond can only manage to sleep with his Japanese girl with the aid of colour pornography. His drinking sessions seem somehow desperate, and the horrors are too absurd to horrify ... it's all rather a muddle and scarcely in the tradition of Secret Service fiction. Perhaps the earlier novels are better. If so, I shall never know, having no intention of reading them." Maurice Richardson, in "The Observer", thought "You Only Live Twice" "though far from the best Bond, is really almost as