You Only Live Twice, 1967
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You Only Live Twice, 1967

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You Only Live Twice, 1967
A Japanese docker's hook, the shaped wooden handle with Japanese character ink-stamp to base [probably the brand name], with sharp iron hook, handle -- 15½in. (39.4cm.) long, hook -- 3¼in. (8.2cm.) long -- supplied for the 1967 United Artists/Eon Productions' film You Only Live Twice; accompanied by a colour reproduction of a corresponding still (2)
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c 1967 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.
Photograph supplied by www.007magazine.co.uk

Lot Essay

Idenitcal hooks are seen in the sequence when James Bond [Sean Connery] and Aki [Akiko Wakabayashi] are at the Kobe Docks and are attacked by Mr Osato's [Teru Shimada] henchmen, one of whom drives at them in a forklift truck - behind the truck are a crowd of dockers brandishing weapons, the docker to the left is holding an identical hook; the weapons were replaced with rubber versions for the fight sequence which followed.

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