You Only Live Twice, 1967
A prop katana with metal tsuba, the silk-bound hilt of simulated shagreen decorated with two gilt minuki, the wooden blade painted to simulate metal, in black wooden sheath with painted ebonised finish and black woven silk strap -- 39in. (99cm.) long -- made for the Japanese Secret Service Ninja training school sequence in the 1967 United Artists/Eon film You Only Live Twice; and corresponding still (2)