You Only Live Twice: Film – Goofups- Factual error: Several times we see the enemy spacecraft, the earth, and the U.S. spacecraft together in the same frame on monitor screens in the SPECTRE base. This leaves no place for SPECTRE to have placed their video camera.
- Continuity: When Bond and Kissy leave the boat, it’s obvious that Bond has nothing on under his shirt. Upon arrival at the volcano, he removes his shirt to reveal a Ninja outfit.
- Continuity: Aki’s car changes from a left-hand drive to a right-hand drive when she leaves it to lead Bond into the underground chamber.
- Continuity: The timer changes from 12 seconds remaining to 25 seconds remaining [widescreen only].
- Continuity: When Aki is driving Bond to see Henderson, she is driving a car with the steering on the right side. As they approach Henderson’s residence, Aki is seen briefly to be on the left side of the car. When the camera cuts to a close-up, she is back on the right again.
- Continuity: Kissy’s shoes when diving and arriving at the volcano.
- Continuity: After Little Nellie has been assembled, Bond gets aboard. A technician is seen to begin the removal of the red rotor brace. The next close-up of Bond sees the brace in position. The next longer shot sees the technician completing the removal of the rotor brace.
- Factual error: When the Russians launch their ship, they are talking about stats of the Sputnik. In Russian, the technician says that it is 36 degrees while the English subtitle reads 72, which is not possible. 36°C is 96.8°F. A further error is that the capsule atop the rocket is not only not the one we later see being captured; it is a US Gemini spacecraft. The Gemini vehicle was first launched in 1964 and was in use until the end of 1966. There were two unmanned and ten manned flights. In 1967, the Soviet Union was already using the Soyuz-class spacecraft.
- Revealing mistake: A wire is clearly seen lifting “Bird 1” off the launch pad during lift-off.
- Revealing mistake: Just before the SPECTRE rocket touches down at their base, the cable lowering it is visible against the smoke, and the crane’s hook is visible at the top of the screen.
- Continuity: When fleeing Osato’s goons, the speedometer on Aki’s car reads 0.
- Continuity: On a monitor in Aki’s car Bond sees Tiger’s helicopter from above lifting Osato’s gunmen’s car. But there is only one helicopter shown in all the other shots so this leaves no place for Tiger to have placed a video camera that would be able to transmit the picture Bond sees.
- Continuity: When Helga Brandt traps Bond in the plane and bails out, the plane was shown retracting the landing gear after take-off and after she bailed out the plane in the background had the gear down, (or it was a different version of the plane with non-retracting gear)
- Continuity: When Kissy returns to the volcano with Tiger, she has changed from her bikini. However, when everyone is fleeing the exploding volcano, Kissy is back in her bikini.
- Continuity: Amount of lava/status of exploding volcano in distance shots inconsistent with conditions in close ups.
- Revealing mistake: While rolling the SPECTRE rocket on to the platform only one of the visible wheels under the platform spins correctly. One of the four wheels doesn’t spin at all. The left wheel spins in the wrong direction.
- Continuity: While flying Little Nellie during the engagement with the SPECTRE helicopters, Bond expends all of his weaponry. Afterward, however, when Bond is told to proceed to a certain position, the helicopter is seen pulling away fully armed.
- Revealing mistake: In the volcano Ninja fight finale, the ace swordman’s weapon bends and straightens several times.
- Continuity: When Blofeld’s control room proves to be less than “impregnable”, he flees with some of his henchmen and Bond in tow. Blofeld takes a Webley from Mr Osato and shoots him with it. He then cocks it and motions at Bond with the pistol. The gun is blasted from his hand and goes off, yet when it is shown on the ground in close-up it is cocked again. The hammer would have to have been re-cocked by hand. Bond then grabs the weapon as Blofeld flees. He joins the ninja assault wielding the top-break British revolver but as he fights, it changes back and forth several times into a Smith and Wesson revolver with a swing out cylinder.
- Continuity: In the abovementioned sequence, Blofeld drops the cat as he grabs the gun. Frightened by the shot, the cat runs between a henchman’s feet then disappears.
- Continuity: Number of tanks on divers recovering Bond’s “body”.
- Revealing mistake: When the divers recover Bond’s body and take it to the submarine, multiple shots show that they are only three or four feet underwater. The submarine in the background is a very small model, as the real thing would have most of the hull and all of the conning tower above water.
- Continuity: As part of Bond’s disguise as a Japanese man, they shave all the hair from his chest. Yet in the final scene of the film, when Bond and Kissy are in the lifeboat, Bond’s chest is quite hairy, even though this is only a few days later.
- Continuity: Bond stows away on a monorail cart which stops at the astronauts’ quarters. After Bond gets out of the cart, a second cart passes by, even though the cart he arrived in is still on the track (out of shot). No one moved the cart before the second cart passed through.
- Revealing mistake: The tachometer in the Toyota 2000 is always at zero (the interiors were shot with rear screen projection). Also, the driver’s use of the steering wheel in no way matches the visible turns on the rear-screen.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond has infiltrated and is escaping from Osato Chemicals for the first time, the security guards that are shooting at him are using silenced revolvers (at least the ones inside the building), yet when they fire, the noise made is that of an unsilenced weapon.
- Continuity: As the four helicopters begin to attack little Nellie, Bond’s helmet microphone switches from his right side to his left and back again.
- Revealing mistake: At the end of the film when the submarine surfaces under Bond’s raft, you can clearly see that the film has been reversed.
- Continuity: When Bond is being suited up by the astronaut and cosmonaut, they connect the blue inlet hose of the air conditioner to the left connector of his suit and the red outlet hose to the right connector. However, when Bond arrives at the Spectre rocket, the hoses have switched sides.
- Continuity: When Bond takes his seat at the sumo arena, he first takes off his shoes. When he and Aki leave shortly later to go to meet Henderson, he leaves without putting his shoes back on. He is wearing shoes when he arrives at Henderson’s apartment.
- Continuity: When James Bond is in Tanaka’s underground train enjoying the sake wine. One servant enters saying that the photograph is ready for viewing. This servant then walks to the door, which is on the left-hand side of the carriage. After going through the door, we can see the servant taking a left turn, but where to? Outside the moving train?
- Continuity: In the volcano when Blofeld drops the cat and the gun goes off the cat is missing in the next shots because the gunshot scared the cat and it took them hours to find it. The cat had hidden in the scaffolding above the soundstage.
- Continuity: During the fight scene with the large goon in Osato’s office, the goon’s suit and shirt repeatedly become disheveled and un-tucked, then straightened and tucked, as the shots change.
- Continuity: When Osato and Brandt land on the helicopter landing pad to meet Bond (as Mr Fischer), the helicopter lands across the top of the “H” on the pad, near the edge of the circle, and it is facing slightly to the left of the camera. After a close-up of the tail rotor, the helicopter is now resting along the side of the “H”, is further inside the circle, and is now facing to the right.
- Continuity: In the climactic scene in the control room, the white ceiling material hanging behind Bond disappears and reappears between shots.
- Continuity: Blofeld dismisses the Chinese representatives from his apartment and they leave. He then calls for Osato and Number 11 and the Chinese are still in the apartment.
- Error made by character/s (possibly deliberate errors by filmmaker): When Bond first sees the “crack” ninja training facility, one of the running ninjas trips and almost falls.
- Continuity: Just before Bond opens the safe at Osata Chemicals he drinks some “Siamese Vodka”. Then there is a shot of the safe that includes the outline of his overcoat. When the camera returns to the same safe shot there is no overcoat outline and Bond walks toward the safe from off-camera.
- Factual error: When the lady is dropped into the piranha tank there is much movement of the water, but the water doesn’t turn red as one would expect it to from the blood.
- Continuity: When Bond and Kissy Suzuki go to the sea, the sun is setting down from shot to shot, yet the next time is day.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Kissy Suzuki dives in the cave, a diving-mask is visible just before emerging from the water.
- Continuity: When Bond enters the volcano, it is already dark, yet when we see the crater opens from within, the sky are blue. Each shot of the opening from the inside shows random amount of light outside.
- Continuity: In the helicopter battle scene, all of the copters are flying quickly through the sky (obviously.) However in the shots where enemy copters are destroyed, they are obviously stationery.
- Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Bond discovers the SPECTRE base and tells Kissy to go summon Tanaka and his ninjas, her dubbed voice says “yes”, but her mouth movement clearly show that she replied in Japanese (“hai”).
- Continuity: During the climactic battle scene, one of Tiger’s ninja’s slides down a rope into the SPECTRE base and runs off, but he has a row of bullet holes across his back.
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