Sean Connery as 007

In March 2020, I watched the first movie to the fifth in the 007 series on TV. They were released between 1962 and 1967. Although their pictures were old after all, yet the movies were stylish and sophisticated. 

The still slender Sean Connery acted James Bond in the five movies when he was between 32 and 37 years old and did not look middle-aged. Connery's James Bond is cool and randomly have sex with hot women, which made me wonder why he did not suffer from sexual diseases. His Bond must have a super strong immune system. Connery reappeared in the James Bond series when Diamonds Are Forever was released in 1971. He was 41 years old at the release. I watched only the beginning part of it and I felt that he was not young anymore. By the way, the Scottish actor had given Japanese bold guys emotional support as a bold but cool man since he stopped hiding his bold head. I have had close-cropped hair since my hair started to thin but I am not cool at all, unlike Sir Sean Connery. 

I thought that Daniela Bianchi appearing in From Russia with Love was the most beautiful woman among the five films, though I felt that Mie Hama appearing in You Only Live Twice was not far behind from her. 

The action scenes were never compared with the ones of the recent action movies, which is natural because they were shot in the 1960s. I think that they certainly affected the following action movies, though.  

I have never watched movies in the 007 series at a theater. I had watched only Never Say Never Again on DVD because I desired to see the bewitching Kim Basinger at that time. I have loved Basinger and I remember only what a gorgeous lady she was. I have watched some Bond movies starring Roger Moore on TV but I have forgotten about them except that the handsome lead seemed to have kind of slow reflexes. I have not watched other Bond movies. When I heard the new Bond movie would be released in November 2020, I thought that I should watch all of the 007 films before the release. That is why I started to watch movies in the series. 

When I attended an English conversation school, I asked a teacher from Manchester how he thought of the James Bond movies. He said that the movies were their legacy. I do not know how I describe the It is Tough being a Man series that is the highly popular one in Japan. I might be criticized by many Japanese but I like James Bond far more than Torajiro Kuruma who is the main character familiarly called Tora-san.