<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $10.3 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $111.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> You Only Live Twice is a 1967 British spy film and the fifth in the James Bond series to be produced by Eon Productions, starring 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 . </P> <P> In the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet 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 . </P>

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