12 Things You Learn Rewatching You Only Live Twice

7. Bond Fights The Rock's Grandfather...And It's Awesome

You Only Live Twice Peter Maivia
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Though the fight scenes in the earlier Bond films can seem a little stiff by contemporary standards, there's a great fight early on in this movie, where Bond battles one of Osato's (Teru Shimada) hulking henchmen.

The brute is played by none other than Peter Maivia, the grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, no less, which perhaps explains why the fight is so damn intense and convincing.

It only barely lasts a minute, but seeing Bond be so thoroughly manhandled by an enemy with legitimate screen presence, who comes at Bond with both a katana and...a sofa no less, is highly entertaining.

There's nothing stilted or awkward about this fight: it's a great, visceral moment in early Bond. It's just a shame it wasn't longer, and it ends with Maivia's goon being incapacitated with a porcelain statue of all things.

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