You Only Live Twice is the first Bond movie with the director Lewis Gilbert.
Lewis Gilbert , ( born 6 March 1920 ) is a British film director , producer and screenwriter , who has directed more than 40 films during six decades ; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky ( 1956 ) , Sink the Bismarck ! 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 . 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 .