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Kissy Suzuki is a fictional character introduced in Ian Fleming's 1964 James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice and featured in the 1967 film adaptation played by Mie Hama. Despite James Bond's womanizing, Kissy Suzuki (at least the literary version) remains the only character known to the reader who bears a child by him: a son named James Suzuki. In the films, Madeleine Swann, played by Léa Seydoux, has a child, Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet), by Bond (Daniel Craig) in No Time to Die. The treatment of Kissy varies greatly between the novel and the film, where she is never identified by her name, no family name appears in the closing credits and the film ends in the usual Bond-style happy ending.
Bond then 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 named Tado Todoroki and lives with Kissy for several months. Kissy decides that she will not stop him if he decides to pursue his true identity, but will encourage the cover story that allowed him to stay with her until something else happens. When Bond decides to leave for Russia, believing the answers to his identity are there, Kissy does not follow; unknown to Bond, she is pregnancy with his child.
Kissy Suzuki does not appear again in the Bond canon, and Bond's child is not mentioned again until "Blast From the Past", a short story published in 1996 by Raymond Benson as a direct sequel to You Only Live Twice. In this story, it is revealed that Bond did eventually learn about his child, a son named James Suzuki. After the events of You Only Live Twice, Kissy and James Suzuki moved to the United States, where she raised him. Bond had little involvement in raising James aside from paying for his university education, and Kissy died from ovarian cancer a few years before the story's timeline. At the start of the story, James Suzuki is a young adult living in New York City and working for a Japanese bank. Bond receives a message, apparently from James, asking him to come to New York City on an urgent matter. When Bond arrives, he finds James murdered, having been being cut on his arm with a razor blade coated in fugu poison. With the aid of Cheryl Haven, an SIS agent, Bond learns that Irma Bunt, Ernst Stavro Blofeld's henchwoman, killed James Suzuki as revenge for Blofeld's death (again in You Only Live Twice). Bond ultimately kills Bunt, but his victory is hollow; he must live with the loss of James and with the knowledge that he was never a real father to him.
In the movie, Kissy is played by Mie Hama. She was originally cast to be played by Akiko Wakabayashi; however, Hama had trouble learning English for the much bigger role of Aki, so the two decided to swap their roles. When Hama became ill during shooting, Sean Connery's wife Diane Cilento doubled for her in the swimming sequence. Her lines were dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl.
UGO Networks offered a mixed review of the character: "Although Mie Hama is attractive in her bikini, this also looks extremely out of place. Similarly inconsistent is her acting, which is charming but forgettable." Mie Hama- Kissy Suzuki Bond Girls UGO's World of James Bond ( Archive) In another article, UGO called her "sexy yet cute-as-a-kimono." A 2006 retrospective CBS featurette called her "stunning", ranking her as the 23rd best Bond girl. () She also placed 18th on the list of the Best Bond girls by LIFE, while Fandango ranked her as 23rd. Yahoo! Movies had her name included in the 2012 list of the best Bond girl names.
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