Osato

Mr. Osato (Japanese: 大里さん) was the head of Osato Chemicals and Engineering and an associate of SPECTRE. The character appeared as the secondary antagonist in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice and was portrayed by Teru Shimada.

When the movie got dubbed in Japanese, Osato was voiced by Yuzuru Fujimoto and Jin Urayama in the TBS and DVD/Blu-Ray versions, respectively.

Biography[]

Background[]

Mr. Osato is a Japanese businessman and director of Osato Chemicals and Engineering. Because of his company and the chemicals it sells, he has been chosen as a partner of the international crime organisation SPECTRE and provides them with the necessary materials to make several manned space flights possible. With the spaceship made possible by Osato, SPECTRE hijacks space capsules of the United States and the Soviet Union - with the aim of fomenting conflict and bringing about war. British Intelligence alone is able to trace the thieves to Japan and secret agent James Bond is dispatched after faking his death in Hong Kong.

Meeting with Bond[]

When Bond follows an assassin of his Japanese contact Dikko Henderson, he goes to Osato's company and finds a safe that tells him a few things, namely a large order for "lox". Though mistaken for fish, Bond deduces that "lox" is shorthand for "liquid oxygen" a component used in rocket fuel, which impresses Japanese Intelligence head Tiger Tanaka and as such, its implied that Osato must be supplying SPECTRE leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld with fuel. Posing as Mr. Fisher from the British company Empire Chemicals, Bond pretends to be interested in a contract with Osato Chemicals. He is warmly greeted by Mr. Osato and Helga Brandt, his personal assistant and SPECTRE No.11. However, Osato knows the truth and then orders his men to kill Bond, who escapes thanks to his partner Aki but 007 is later caught spying on one of Osato's ships at the harbor. Osato has him handed over to Brandt for interrogation but again Bond manages to escape as Brandt allows herself to have sex with the British spy. This proves problematic as the critical phase of SPECTRE's plans begins.

Death[]

Later, at SPECTRE's Volcano launch site, Blofeld summons Osato and Brandt for an urgent report, and reprimands them for failing to kill Bond. Blofeld gives Osato and Brandt the strictest orders to kill Bond; however, Osato gets out of the loop by revealing that he left the whole thing to Brandt. Blofeld coolly counters that his organisation does not tolerate failure and throws them both out of his office. Just as Brandt crosses the bridge that leads over the piranha pool into Blofeld's room, Blofeld activates a secret mechanism who plunges her into a pool full of piranhas where she dies eaten alive. Osato is then ordered to kill Bond if he doesn’t want to meet the same awful fate. Osato then attempts to kill Bond by using a fake ninja who has a knife, but Bond outsmarts him. The other way is by dropping poison into his mouth while he is asleep, which because he turned over, killed Aki instead. Both of these attempts were carried out by his henchmen, and Osato is horrified when 007 is captured by Blofeld's men after his attempt to infiltrate the lair. When the hideout is stormed by the Japanese secret service, complete chaos breaks out. Blofeld retreats with the captured Bond and his bodyguard Hans to escape at a monorail and also orders Osato to accompany him. When he arrives at the monorail, he is handed Hans' Webley Mk IV and points it at Bond, saying "This is the price of failure, Mr. Bond," but then he turns the gun and shoots Osato instead for his repeated failures.

Henchmen[]

Helga Brandt

Spectre 4

Dodge Driver

Bedroom Assassin

Ninja School Assassin

Knife Assassin

Gallery[]

Osato/Gallery

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