You Only Live Twice: The LS Cut

I will keep this short and concise. This is an absolutely outstanding fan edit, I cannot over praise it. I was bitterly disappointed with the theatrical version with the obvious flaws, all potential wasted. Terrible editing, woeful pacing, pathetic one liners, insulting sexual innuendo and racism, ruining a great character by a wasted death scene and so on. This is the film that should have been released. It solves all of these major problems and is now one of the best James Bond films, on par with Sean Connery's exceptional first 4 films, it serves as a fitting swansong to his tenure. The pacing, editing, and tone is masterful here, it was like watching a completely different film, I wholeheartedly agree with all changes especially the death scene and Japanese makeover. Greenscreen shots are massively improved. This is 100% the definitive cut of the film. It cannot be flawed, perfection.

The A/V quality of this is excellent and the edits made certainly improve the film. However, I think there's only so much that can be done to improve such a deeply flawed script. The blatant racism and sexism has been toned down, but the villains are still ludicrously stupid. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone could salvage this film from being a disappointment.

This is certainly the best version of this film available though

This edit is excellent. Plain and simple. YOLT is one of the my favorite, if not THE favorite, of the Connery films; but there's just no denying that the film does kind of drag during the whole process of Bond donning the Japanese disguise and going through the sham marriage and such. Before and after that entire sequence, the film is fairly solid. What LastSurvivor did here was mostly trim that specific sequence, and the edits are, for the most part, simple and straightforward; but as "simple" as it was, it undeniably made the film vastly superior to the original. An edit that made a solid film even more solid.

Fully recommend!

I enjoy the movie. I saw it 3 time the past few days. First the original movie, the Ls edit then the commentary, That's good got rid of Bond being Japanese, as looking Scottich 6 2. foot tall back then and getting married in public. I know its in the book but if he was short maybe it would work. I was surprise Aki was not dead. That was nice she was not dead I like her. Switching Kissy at the boat was a good idea. I only thing I did not like too much was when the helicopter got the car and it did not dropped in the ocean, it was so funny, You could not have Aki & Bond not say anything or see it in the on the little monitor screen. But that's just a little thing in the movie. I also like the commentary you made talking about Editing, different Bond movies, and your opinions. The editing the visual is sharp and audio is so good. I had fun. Im looking forward for your next movie.

Removing the transformation scene and wedding greatly improves the pace of You Only Live Twice. In addition to the Transformation being offensive both it and the wedding were just plain stupid. A spy wanting to keep a low profile should not have a big wedding where Bond and the bride are the centre of attention and Connery barely looks any different after his makeup is applied.

Other changes I really appreciated: The sunset shot of Kissy on the boat looks great now, was very distracting before. Removing the back projection shot of Brandt parachuting ( although her plan to kill Bond is still needlessly convoluted.)

The one change I did not like was the cutting of the assasination of Aki. I like the scene and although I would have liked for Aki to remain the Bond girl for the whole film, having her killed increases the sense of jeopardy and for me would have been preferable to her just dropping out of the story.