Narazumono - Ken Takakura (1964) - Former Ventris Place, Happy Valley

Minami is given a key to the woman's apartment and he heads over there one day. The apartment is on Ventris Road and has a great view of the Happy valley racecourse and looks as though it was in a block that has since been replaced by the much taller Ventris Place residential development. I'm not sure what the older building was called but you can catch a distant glimpse of it on this image hosted over on FLICKR. It's the 7-storey double fronted block on the far centre right of the photograph. If anyone can suggest what it was called it would be appreciated (so I can change the title of the post). It was obviously standing in 1953 but how long it last I don't know. The current Ventris Place development was built in 1985 so the older building has been gone for at least that long. In one of the shots from the window though we are given the view down to the ground and the developments distinctive curved podium is still intact today.

The building may have been redeveloped, but the podium is the same