You Only Live Twice (1967)

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Eon productions considered hiring Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's production company - the company that made their Supermarionation shows such as Stingray, Thunderbirds, and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - to help out with the film's SFX work; it would not be until The Man with the Golden Gun that Derek Meddings, chief FX technician for the Andersons, would go to work on a Bond film.
This was the only Sean Connery Bond movie never to receive any BBFC cuts.
While in Japan, Sean Connery and his wife Diane Cilento were hounded by the international press. During news conferences the press insisted on referring to Connery as James Bond. Local newsmen attempted to photograph him in a rest room. Thirty extra private security guards were hired to combat the excess noise and hindrance but even the guards started to take photos. Connery was allegedly photographed on a toilet and the picture published in a Tokyo newspaper. Halfway through filming, Connery announced he would not be returning as James Bond. To ease the tension the producers removed his contractual obligation to do one more 007 movie, despite being offered $1 million. After the film wrapped, Connery was reportedly asked whether he found Japanese women attractive to which he allegedly replied, "No," causing many Japanese to call him bad names. This faux pas turned out to be based on a mistranslation on a day when Connery was exhausted after an intensive day's filming. Connery didn't go out of his way to be too personable with the interviewer who was aghast that the actor showed up in a casual T-shirt with baggy trousers and sandals, and not wearing a toupee. "Is this how James Bond dresses?" he asked, to which Connery replied tersely "I'm not James Bond, I'm Sean Connery, a man who likes to dress comforead more facts about You Only Live Twice...