You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film directed by Lewis Gilbert.
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 .