If you loved The Spy Who Loved Me, try You Only Live Twice
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Lewis Gilbert, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Action / Adventure / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Spy Who Loved Me, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What You Only Live Twice is
Tokyo, cherry blossom season, a spacecraft humming in orbit. A Russian capsule and an American one vanish, tensions rise, Bond walks alone through a Japanese garden. Gilbert's fifth Bond film sets the stage for a legendary villain.

