007: You Only Live Twice

007: You Only Live Twice is a 2023 spy film and a sequel to 007: Thunderball. It is the first film to feature Blofeld as the main antagonist. additionally, it finishes the first story arc of the series, involving Bond's struggle against OCTOPUS, allowing for other, non OCTOPUS affiliated villains to appear in subsuquent films before the return of OCTOPUS in 007: On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Plot
James Bond is sent to Tokyo to further investigate Blofeld's activities. However, he and his assistant Aki are captured by OCTOPUS and are held in their underwater base, where Bond encounters Blofeld in person for the first time. Although he escapes, Blofeld's search intensifies as assassins swarm Tokyo in search of Bond.

After Aki is killed in a violent attempt on Bond's life, Bond stages a fake marriage to a student named Kissy and they infiltrate the OCTOPUS hideout. There, blofeld reveals his plans to initiate the Third World War by sending a stolen American craft to attack Russia. However, Bond disables the craft and destroys it before Blofeld's plans can come to fruition. With the crisis averted, Blofeld pursues Bond deeper into the base. After a shootout taht kills numerous OCTOPUS henchmen, Blofeld activates the base's self destruct mechanism and flees. Bond and Kissy escape as the base is destroyed and they are picked up by a US submarine.

Cast
Michael Fassbender - James Bond/007

Bill Nighy - M

Hugh Laurie - Q

Billie Piper - Miss Monneypenny

Brenda Song - Aki

Ellen Wong - Kissy Suzuki

Toby Jones - Ernest Stavro Blofeld