Kissy Suzuki
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| James Bond character | |
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| Kissy Suzuki | |
| Gender | Female |
| Role | Bond girl |
| Affiliation | Tiger Tanaka |
| Current status | Active |
| Portrayed by | Mie Hama |
Kissy Suzuki is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's 1964 James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice. In the 1967 film adaptation, she is played by Mie Hama.
In both the film and novel, Kissy is an agent working for the head of the Japanese secret service, Tiger Tanaka, although this connection is made more explicit in the film version than the book, which depicts her as a villager recruited to help in Bond's mission.
Bond, going undercover as a Japanese fisherman, marries Kissy in an arranged ceremony in order to better establish his cover. In the film, Bond and Kissy use their cover to investigate a nearby island where the evil organization SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, plot to start World War III; in the novel, the target is a castle where Blofeld maintains a "suicide garden" where people come to die (whether they want to or not), and Bond is seeking revenge for the murder of his wife at the conclusion of the previous novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service. In the film version, Bond and Kissy eventually find Blofeld's lair, hidden within a volcano; with Tanaka's help the trio overthrow Blofeld's lair adverting war.
The treatment of Kissy varies greatly between the novel and the film. In the film, she is never identified by her last name (contrary to some sources, the name Suzuki does not even appear in the closing credits), and the film ends in the usual Bond-style happy ending. In the book, however, Bond sustains amnesia in the aftermath of his attack with Blofeld and is believed dead by his superiors; in reality, he comes to believe he is a fisherman and lives with Kissy for several months. When Bond decides to leave for Russia, believing the answers to his identity are there, Kissy does not follow; unknown to Bond, she is pregnant with his child.
Kissy Suzuki does not appear again in the Bond canon, and Bond's child does not appear until "Blast From the Past", a short story published in 1996 by Raymond Benson as a direct sequel to You Only Live Twice. By the time of this story, Kissy is now deceased and Bond is contacted by his son (of whom he has evidently learned in the interim.)
Despite Bond's womanizing, Kissy Suzuki (at least the literary version) remains the only character who bears a child by him.
| Preceded by: Dominique Derval |
Official Main Bond Girl 1967 |
Succeeded by: Tracy Bond |
