You Only Live Twice (film) manned spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit. With each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War, Bond travels secretly to a remote Japanese island to find the perpetrators and comes face to face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. The film reveals the appearance of Blofeld, who was previously a partially unseen character. SPECTRE is working for the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be the People's Republic of China, to provoke war between the superpowers. During the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would retire from the role of Bond, but after
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