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You Only Live Twice

1967 · directed by Lewis Gilbert · 117 min
25,101 feet · Prominence
466th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw80

Lifetime worldwide gross $112m, re-releases included; about $1.10bn in 2026 money.

Rank147 of 11,051In 19672 of 38

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise67

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics67 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy65

Judged directly: Volcano lair and Blofeld, endlessly parodied.

Verdict65 of 100IMDb6.8 from 124kWikipedia35k views a monthAge59 years

Scored beside it · 421 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 80 praise 67 legacy 65averages 71, placing it at25,101 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Mie Hama▲ Akiko Wakabayashi

In these careers — elevation for this film

Sean Connery20,690 ftDonald Pleasence19,515 ftTetsuro Tamba18,260 ftAkiko Wakabayashi18,070 ftMie Hama18,069 ftWilliam Sylvester17,738 ftCharles Gray17,636 ft