When Bond and Kissy leave the boat, it's obvious that Bond has nothing on under his shirt. Upon arrival at the volcano, he removes his shirt to reveal a Ninja outfit.
A ninja blows a wide hole in the volcano's roof to allow his fellow ninjas to enter. In subsequent shots the roof is in perfect condition.
Little Nellie takes some bullet hole damage to its rudder during the helicopter battle scene. The bullet holes disappear in all subsequent scenes.
The ninjas outside the crater are armed with Spanish Star Z-45 submachine guns and Thompsons. When they are inside the volcano, they mostly use British Sterling and Sten submachine guns. This is because the exterior shots were filmed in Spain, while the volcano set was in Pinewood, UK.
As Bond is cut out of the sea burial bag, it suddenly becomes dry.
The fake "water" in the volcano's crater retracts into the side of the crater yet it is much wider than the side of the volcano at that point. It would extend out past the side of the volcanic cone.
Bond kills a SPECTRE agent in the lair using a shuriken. Shuriken are small blades for distraction and cause only light injuries. A strike to the chest through clothing could be incapacitating and painful, but would not be lethal, certainly not instantly.
When Helga Brandt has left the plane, we can hear the ominous "Jericho trumpet" sound of a WWII Stuka bomber. When an engine goes to "over rev" its sound just gets more high-pitched. It does not have the siren-like sound to it.
In all the shots of the spaceships, they have a bright red light illuminating their shadow side. This is not possible, as in space, the only source of light is the sun. Everything in the shadow will be black.
M is wearing a Great War "trio", so, enlisted in late 1914. He would be well past retirement age, given that he could not have been born after the mid 1890's.
On a monitor in Aki's car Bond sees Tiger's helicopter from above lifting Osato's gunmen's car. But there is only one helicopter shown in all the other shots so this leaves no place for Tiger to have placed a video camera that would be able to transmit the picture Bond sees.
This is not a goof. Obviously it implies that there is an observer helicopter, perhaps to run interference if necessary. And this is a movie after all. (If helicopters were to be shown, why can't we see is the third that is photographing the other two?)
This is not a goof. Obviously it implies that there is an observer helicopter, perhaps to run interference if necessary. And this is a movie after all. (If helicopters were to be shown, why can't we see is the third that is photographing the other two?)
Why is "Mr Fisher" meeting the CEO of Osato to discuss a basic supply order? This is something done by phone or letter with that department. The CEO is too busy to handle routine sales matters. However, this is not the United States or Great Britain. Business practices in Japan were different, especially when making initial contact with a new supplier.
Henderson states that he has lived in Japan for 28 years. Assuming that the film takes place in the same year that it was released, that would mean that he was living there since before the Battle of Singapore in which he admitted to having taken part. While it is unlikely that he would have lived in Japan after Great Britain had declared war, fought in the Battle of Singapore, and then still lived in Japan, he says nothing about how long before the war he lived there. He could easily have lived in Japan in the 1930s but left well before the war, then returned after it.
Henderson says to Bond when offering a drink "Stirred, not shaken. That was right, wasn't it?"
Bond then replies: "Perfect". Bond usually drinks his Vodka Martinis shaken, not stirred.
However, Bond may have chosen not to correct Henderson, just to be a gentleman.
Bond is shot from the submarine torpedo tube wearing a tight fitting scuba diving suit and is next seen on a Japanese street in a suit.Where did he get it from? One would assume that arrangements quite obviously had been made for this.
While rolling the SPECTRE rocket on to the platform only one of the visible wheels under the platform spins correctly. One of the four wheels doesn't spin at all. The left wheel spins in the wrong direction.
When Bond and Aki are being chased by the black car, Aki changes lanes in traffic. However, she turns the steering wheel nearly a full rotation, which would have turned the car sharply to the right.
When Helga Brandt traps Bond in the plane and bails out, you can see that the wooden board holding Bond's arms to the chair has a pre-made crack down the center where he eventually breaks loose.
On a monitor in Aki's Toyota, Bond sees the helicopter flying with the car it has picked up, from about the same altitude. But where would the camera be? Bond seems to be watching the same movie we are.
When Bond's "body" is dropped off the ship and later picked up by the scuba divers it is absolutely rigid yet, when inside the sub, it bends and moves like a real body showing that the original "body" was actually a dummy.
After Bond and the American prisoners overpower the Japanese guards, they put on the guards uniforms. Its unlikely that the tall well build Bond would fit into a smaller Japanese person's uniform. When the guards run into the cell after Bond blows the lock, its obvious that the guards running past Bond are shorter and not as well built as Bond.
When Q is briefing Bond on Little Nellie he says the Heat Seeking Air To Air Missiles fire 60 a minute. However this is a pointless line, since there are only two missiles, and they are fired both at the same time from a single button.
The fastest variant of the Bell 47, the helicopters chasing "Little Nellie," could only go 105 mph flat-out, while the Wallis WA-116 could go over 25 mph faster. "Little Nellie" could have easily outdistanced her pursuers had Bond chosen to do so. While one could say that "Little Nellie" was weighed down with ordnance, so, too, were the Bells.
The roof of the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. base is made of metal. Despite this, daylight can be seen through it.
When 007 chases Henderson's assassin across the yard, a moment before 007 tackles him, the man takes a 1/2-step, obviously in preparation for being tackled.
Members of a predominantly Japanese organisation would not refer to a rocket as a "bird"; this is an American expression.
When Bond is fighting Hans, Bond gets knocked over near the fireplace, and it plays a sound effect of glass breaking. However, there are no glass objects anywhere near Bond at this time.
When Bond discovers the SPECTRE base and tells Kissy to go summon Tanaka and his ninjas, her dubbed voice says "yes", but her mouth movement clearly show that she replied in Japanese ("hai").
When Bond has infiltrated and is escaping from Osato Chemicals for the first time, the security guards that are shooting at him are using silenced revolvers (at least the ones inside the building), yet when they fire, the noise made is that of an unsilenced weapon.
When Tanaka demonstrates the rocket-propelled bullets for Bond, just before he fires the bullet, his mouth starts moving as if he is saying something, but no words come out.
When Bond is fighting Hans, Hans throws one punch that doesn't even come close to making contact, but a sound effect is played as if it connected.
When Kissy Suzuki dives in the cave, a diving-mask is visible just before emerging from the water.
During the landing of the rocket with the Soviet capsule, when it sets down insides the crater, the rope with which it is lowered briefly emerges from the smoke.
Houston Command tells the astronauts that the UFO is approaching their ship from astern. However when Chris, the astronaut, finally says "now I see it", he is facing toward the front of his ship.
In the Russian launch sequence the rocket shown lifting off from the pad is an American made Titan III-C ICBM modified to launch the Gemini series spacecraft. Also there are palm trees in the foreground which indicates a tropical location far south of the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome complex.
As Helga flies Bond the ground in the background is typical English farming countryside not Japanese.
According to the commentary, the Americans and Russians are launching each other's spacecraft toward the end of the film.
When Bond meets Blofeld, the radar display shows they are not on a small remote island after all, but in the middle of the Japanese mainland - on Honshu, between Kyoto & Tokyo.
Mounted over Tanaka's desk aboard his private train, there is a metal artwork that is clearly meant to be a replica of Japan's four main islands (there is even a little red flag where Tokyo is). However, the set designers clearly made the artwork too large for the space provided, so to make it fit, the northern island of Hokkaido is wildly tilted over 90-degrees.
After a 4 hour hike to the top of the crater with no backpack, Bond pulls out a full suction cup apparatus set up. How did he ever know to bring this, not knowing there was anything inside the crater?
Bond's face was shown in many newspapers after he faked his death, Mr. Osato and Brandt acknowledge this, yet they don't recognize Bond when they meet him and only realize it's him when Blofeld points it out.
How does Blofeld have a side view of the spacecraft in outer space? This would mean that he would need to have an additional spacecraft with a camera attached. In that event, the astronauts would notice two spacecraft approaching instead of one.
While Bond and Kissy are climbing the volcano, his "Japanese" make-up disappears somewhere along the way. It's unlikely he could have casually pulled it off and tossed it away; he also had no way of knowing he wouldn't be needing it again.
Bond undergoes extensive makeup, a giant wedding ceremony, and works as a fisherman for a day in order to pass as a native in front of hundreds of people who attended the wedding so he could get to an apparently uninhabited island. A wet suit and rebreather would have accomplished the same ends.
Blofeld claims that only one person, 007, uses a Walther PPK. But several people on all sides have been using the PPK in this series.
The NASA technicians and US astronauts in the opening sequence repeatedly use the phrase "Cape-Com". The term actually used was "Cap-Com".
Blofeld states that the Piranha can strip a human to the bone in 30-seconds. That is an old myth. They can indeed strip a human to the bone, but it takes much longer than 30-seconds.
Bond authenticates Tanaka with the passphrase "I love you". Aki, who clearly lured Bond into the the lair (and would presumably be in communication with the man who claims to be Tanaka), had previously heard the passphrase from Bond at the sumo match. Bond would gain no more confidence that Tanaka was really Tanaka by hearing the passphrase again since he had divulged it earlier to an associate of this man.
When Bond first arrives at the ninja training camp, some of of the ninjas are sword fighting. It is assumed that they are sparring (with no real contact) because the ninja in blue obviously misses several of the others very badly with the sword, but they faint as if hit. However, two of the ninjas scream loudly in pain when they are "slashed" which makes it unclear whether they are sparring or using real contact.