Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Nga Tsin Long Road , Kowloon City

I've been doing a bit of spring cleaning on my increasingly creaky desktop and found a couple of images from Godzilla vs Destroyah that I never made into a post. I have no idea if I forgot at the time or just didn't know where the location was. Anyway, after a quick look I can see that this shot was taken at the junction of Nga Tsin Wai Road and Nga Tsin Long Road. The giveaway in this case is the corner of the market building that can be seen on the right of the upper image. The older buildings are still there for the time being.

Tai Po Market KCR Station - Now and Then

I recently took a trip back to Tai Po, my former home of six years when I first moved to Hong Kong, and coincidentally the very first place I ever stayed when I first visited Hong Kong back in November 1995. One of the best places of interest in Tai Po is the Railway Museum, based in what is the former Tai Po Market KCR station.

Sadly, the days of cows wandering around in the background are long gone, but it's a good example of how over-developed Hong Kong has become.

Ballad of a Small Player - Colin Farrell (2025) - Rio Hotel Casino, Macau

Another spot from TST Dave, this one is quite brief and I had totally missed it so hats off to Dave for persevering on this one. It's definitely a tricky one to spot. The top image shows Lord Doyle riding an escalator down to a lower floor during his initial boit of gambling. Dave was able to match the ceiling decoration in the background to confirm it was the Rio Hotel Casino. This is the same location that Doyle is first spotted by Dao-ming and the same place he returns to following his return to Macau after convalescing in Hong Kong, so it's a fairly major location I had missed out. Thanks Dave.

Ballad of a Small Player - Colin Farrell (2025) - Sands Casino Hotel, Macau

Here are a couple of extra locations for Ballad of a Small Player courtesy of TST Dave. So many thanks to Dave. The first one is a brief view of the Sands, identifiable by the crescent-shaped light fittings that cover the gaming floor. If you have a decent enough memory you may recall I had identified this a while back for Now You See Me 2, but I had neglected to include it this time around.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Lam Tei Quarry

The film finale takes place in a quarry as Mina chases Yuen Hua and Yuen Ying away from the waterfront on a police motorcycle. The brother crashes and is killed so it's left to his sister to fight Mina mano a mano. This is actually quite a good fight and you can see Godenzi throwing down with some slick moves - no wonder Sammo made a move...Anyway, it looks as though this was filmed at Lam Tei quarry.

Yip Man's Grave, Fanling

Continuing the process of resurrecting my film- and Bruce Lee-related posts from my old, deleted history blog, here is a post I originally made back in 2011 about how to visit Yip Man's grave in Fanling. It's been a while since I made the effort to go (I think my last trip was around 2014?) but I don't believe very much has changed since then.

Yip Man has been very much in the public eye over the past decade or so thanks to the rather large number (relatively speaking) of films that have been made about him, including four with Donnie Yen, two with Dennis To, an effort from Wong Kar Wai starring Tony Leung, a mainland Chinese TV series, another film with Anthony Wong, and a plethora of cheap and quick cynical cash-ins from mainland China. First we had Brucesploitation and now we have Yip Mansploitation. If you're curious about whether the old master is spinning in his grave about all this, you can now go and check.

This photo is on Yip’s grave stone

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon

Mina takes the brunt of the explosion at the grave site and is rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Sai Wan Military Cemetery

Bo (Tony Leung) is laid to rest at the Sai Wan War Cemetery. In reality, when a civil servant dies in the line of duty, they get to be buried at Gallant Garden in Wo Hop Shek. Mina spots the Viet gang boss just prior to him blowing up a bomb on the grave.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Wu Kau Tang, North District

On my burnt-in subtitle version of this film, the place the Vietnamese gang lure the police to is called "Wu Gao Tam Park", but in reality it is usually referred to as "Wu Kau Tang" - a cluster of old villages just north of Tai Po and Plover Cove Reservoir. Ling arrives first to meet the "informant" and parks her car in the car park.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Hong Kong University Main Building

The interiors of the police station were filmed in the old main building of Hong Kong University. This isn't the first time it has been used as a police station (reminder: To Be Number One).