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the process of resurrecting my film- and Bruce Lee-related posts from my old, deleted history blog, here is a post I originally made back in 2011 about how to visit Yip Man's grave in Fanling.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 Antony 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).

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Club BBoss, East TST

The establishing shot for the night club raid used a shot of the entrance of what was to become Club BBoss. The venue has had an interesing history over the years. Originally called "Club Volvo" (it can be seen in this form in Blade in Hong Kong), however, Volvo (the car company) found out and proceeded to sue the owners. Volvo won and the club owners agreed to change the club name to "Club Borubo" (Borubo was the Japanese pronunciation of "Volvo"). This occurred sometime around 1990 - and it's possibly this form of the club that can be seen in the images below.

The neon lights on the exterior in the shots below are significantly more extravagant than when the club was "Volvo", and even when it was "BBoss". If you look carefully though you can see the original neon signage behind the front section. So, a question for TST experts - was this the signage for when it was Club Borubo, or is this a prop stuck on the front for the film?

Anyway, the club became Club BBoss in the 90s and stayed that way until it closed down around ten years ago (as I write in 2026). It was recently reinvented and reopened as "Club Big Boss Generation" at the same venue, but I believe this life was short-lived and it closed down again within 2 months due to investor in-fighting.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Former Marine Police HQ

The police HQ in this film is the former Marine Police HQ in Tsim Sha Tsui. These days it is a boutique hotel. It's current name is FWD House 1881, but this is its thrid name since being reopened about 10 years ago. The building in the background is the Langham, but the view is now obscured by "One Peking". The interiors of the police station were anopther location though.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Fenwick Pier Street, Wanchai

Mina grabs a motorcycle and continues the chase along Fenwick Pier Street. You can see the side of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the background. The lower three images are from the end of the car chase as the baddies crash. this last bit was filmed closer to the hotel. That area used to be an intersection but has since been turned into a roundabout.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Lung King Street, Wanchai

The bad guys stop their car and turn to shoot a truck at the side of the road, which explodes and creates a huge fireball through which Mina rides the motorcycle. This was filmed along Lung King Street. There used to be a sewage screening plant here (that's the low white wall you can see at the side of the road), which itself has been used as a filming location, but has been subsequently demolished. The road has also undergone some realignment following the last round of reclamation and the creation of the Central/Wanchai Bypass.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Hung Hing Road, Wanchai

Quite a few shots from the subsequent car chase were shot along Hung Hing Road next to the Cross Harbour Tunnel Entrance. The order of the images below is the same as the order in the film. You can see the concrete lattice roof of the tunnel entrance in the background of the second and third images.