20 Things You Didn’t Know About You Only Live Twice (1967)
15. Mrs James Bond
You Only Live Twice is the first film in which James Bond gets married, even though it is purely a ruse to smuggle him onto the rural Japanese island from which SPECTRE is operating.
He “marries“ one of Tiger Tanaka’s agents, Kissy Suzuki who lives in a fishing village. As such, Kissy had to swim onscreen; however, it was discovered that Mie Hama was not able to swim during filming due to stomach cramps.
Sean Connery’s then-wife, Australian actress, Diane Cilento - who had accompanied him to Japan - doubled for Mie Hama in her swimming scenes, wearing a black wig to cover her blonde locks.
Diane Cilento (mother of Jason Connery) became the first wife of a Bond actor to feature as a Bond Girl [she was followed by Cassandra Harris in For Your Eyes Only (1981), whose casting as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf pre-dated Pierce Brosnan’s casting as Double-0 Seven by approximately 13 years].
Cilento and Connery later separated in 1971 and were divorced in 1973.