You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth
spy film in the
James Bond series, and the fifth to star
Sean Connery as the fictional
MI6 agent
James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by
Roald Dahl, and loosely based on
Ian Fleming's 1964 novel of the
same name. It is the first
James Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.