The Impossible Mission Summary

Bond is summoned into M's office all ready to hand in his resignation. He feels guilty for letting his boss, the service and himself down. M is sitting in his desk across from an empty chair.

Bond sits down and offers his resignation. To his surprise, he is offered a new project. He is renamed 7777 and given what seems to be a promotion. The catch is that he has to go to Japan to get information out of the head of the Japanese Secret Service, Tiger Tanaka, about some secret deals going on.

M describes Tiger to Bond as a man who studied at Oxford and spied for Japan before the war. He joined the Kempeitai or a Gestapo, and was trained to be a kami-kaze, but never completed the mission due to the surrender of Japan.

Bond says...