Monday, July 16, 2018

Les Anges Gardiens - Gerard Depardieu (1995) - Nai Chung, Ma On Shan

The community work the church is doing looks like it is at a refugee camp over near Nai Chung. Now, I know there used to be a Vietnamese Refugee Camp not far away at Whitehead Point, but I'm not aware of any at this particular strip of land (it's been used for filming a couple of times before here and here) so I can only assume this was built for the purpose of this film or borrowed from another.

The land at the moment is empty so expect a massive residential development to go up there at some point as the villagers illegally sell their land to developers for mega bucks (welcome to HK!).

Little known fact: despite me listing this place as part of Ma On Shan, it's actually administratively part of Tai Po District despite being physically closer to Sai Kung. In fact, the whole of northern Sai Kung falls under the remit of Tai Po District - hence why there is a Sai Kung Rural Committee building in the centre of Tai Po!).

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