The Tokyo Local Sakura Festival Experience
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Some I knew, much I didn’t! Thank you for this James!! Def useful for future episodes!!!
ONLY in JAPAN
2019-03-31 10:14:16 +0000 UTCJohn Bond You Only Live Twice filmed in Tokyo Japan. OK, you and Kanae rent a 1966 Toyota 2000 GT convertible and drive up to the New Otani Hotel (Akmie chemical co.) as Kanae yells “get down!” John Bond gets in the sports car and she Wisks you away as the thugs follow you behind in a black sedan blazing their machine guns! <a href="https://youtu.be/LyMtP0QjVVA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/LyMtP0QjVVA</a>
James D. Martin
2019-03-31 07:33:53 +0000 UTCFilming of You Only Live Twice lasted from July 1966 to March 1967. <a href="https://youtu.be/LyMtP0QjVVA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/LyMtP0QjVVA</a> The film was shot primarily in Japan and most of the locations are identifiable. In summary: Tokyo: After arriving in Japan at Akime, Bond goes to Tokyo. The initial scenes are set in and around the Ginza area. The Hotel New Otani Tokyo served as the outside for Osato Chemicals, and the hotel's gardens were used for scenes of the ninja training. A car chase was largely filmed in the area around the old Olympic Stadium. Tokyo Tower and the centre of Tokyo can be briefly seen in a sequence where the villain's car is dropped in Tokyo Bay. Tanaka's private subway station was filmed at the Tokyo Metro's Nakano-shimbashi Station. A sumo wrestling bout was filmed at Tokyo's sumo hall, the Kuramae Kokugikan, but this is now demolished. Kobe Docks appears in a sequence when Bond investigates the ship Ning Po, and is involved in a fight. Bond's wedding at a Shinto Shrine was filmed in Nachi. Himeji Castle in Hyōgo Prefecture was depicted as Tanaka's ninja training camp. The village of Akime was where Bond and his ama wife lived and where the ama scenes were shot. The ryokan Shigetomi-so (now known as Shimazu Shigetomisoh Manor) was used as the exterior of Tiger's house. Kagoshima Prefecture was the location for various scenes depicting Little Nellie (see below). Mount Shinmoe-dake in Kyūshū was used for the exteriors of SPECTRE's headquarters.[5][23][24] Most of the interiors were shot at Pinewood. The opening sequence in Hong Kong used some location footage of a street in Kowloon. Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour is also shown but the at-sea burial of Bond and the retrieval of the corpse was filmed off Gibraltar and the Bahamas. The scenes with the light aircraft ferrying Bond to his supposed death were shot over a very English looking, Buckinghamshire countryside whereas this was supposed to be Japan.[22] Large crowds were present in Japan to see the shooting. A Japanese fan began following Sean Connery with a camera, and the police were called several times to prevent invasions during shooting.[5][17] The heavily armed WA-116 autogyro "Little Nellie" was included after Ken Adam heard a radio interview with its inventor, RAF Wing Commander Ken Wallis. Little Nellie was named after music hall star Nellie Wallace, who has a similar surname to its inventor. Wallis piloted his invention, which was equipped with various mock-up armaments by John Stears' special effects team, during production.[21] "Nellie's" battle with helicopters proved to be difficult to film. The scenes were initially shot in Miyazaki, first with takes of the gyrocopter, with more than 85 take-offs, 5 hours of flight and Wallis nearly crashing into the camera several times. A scene filming the helicopters from above created a major downdraft and cameraman John Jordan's foot was severed by the craft's rotor. The concluding shots involved explosions, which the Japanese government did not allow in a national park. So, the crew moved to Torremolinos, Spain, which was found to resemble the Japanese landscape.[5] The shots of the volcano were filmed at Shinmoedake on Kyushu Island[25] The sets of SPECTRE's volcano base were constructed at a lot inside Pinewood Studios, with a cost of $1 million and including operative heliport and monorail.[5][23] The 45 m (148 ft) tall set could be seen from 5 kilometres (3 miles) away, and attracted many people from the region.[26] Locations outside Japan included using the Royal Navy frigate HMS Tenby, then in Gibraltar, for the sea burial,[27] Hong Kong for the scene where Bond fakes his death, and Norway for the Soviet radar station.[5][24][26] Sean Connery's then-wife Diane Cilento performed the swimming scenes for at least five Japanese actresses, including Mie Hama.[5] Martial arts expert Donn F. Draeger provided martial arts training, and also doubled for Connery.[28] Lewis Gilbert's regular editor, Thelma Connell, was originally hired to edit the film. However, after her initial, almost three-hour cut received a terrible response from test audiences, Peter R. Hunt was asked to re-edit the film. Hunt's cut proved a much greater success, and he was awarded the director's chair on the next film as a result.[10]
James D. Martin
2019-03-31 07:13:00 +0000 UTC
