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 . 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 . You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert , who later directed the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me and the 1979 film Moonraker , both starring Roger Moore . You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel ( and twelfth book ) in Ian Fleming 's James Bond series of stories . You Only Live Twice is the concluding chapter in what is known as the `` Blofeld Trilogy '' .
You Only Live Twice is a Bond film.