Thursday, June 20, 2019

Banzaï - Coluche (1983) - View Over Kowloon Tong, Kowloon

One of the first shots we have from the "bombing" sequence is a view across Kowloon Tong. This angle of this shot tells me that the film makers were most likely on Checkerboard Hill filming the west approach of a plane landing at Kai Tak.

The low rise neighbourhood in the foreground is Kowloon Tong with the large open building site being the location of where Parc Oasis was subsequently built in Yau Yat Chuen (although that site wasn't completed for another 12 years!). The small hillock on the left is Woh Chai Hill in Shek Kip Mei and if you look closely you can see the red/white striped chimney from the old Lai Chi Kok incinerator behind Garden Hill at the far right of the image.

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