Monday, December 27, 2021

Tokyo Gang vs Hong Kong Gang - Ken Takakura (1964) - 32 Factory Street, Shau Kei Wan

After leaving Chang with the car, Kitahara goes to hand the drugs to Lee Shuka (Yoshiko Mita) a local Cantonese opera star who for some reason has links to the gang (I haven't sussed it out yet - please feel free to comment if you know the plot). He then leaves and crawls out onto the street to die. The location is the end of Factory Street in Shau kei Wan. That's quite an impressive bit of walking with a gunshot wound to the stomach considering he left the car back in Shek Tong Tsui.

The building partially seen in frame is #32. It's one of the area's more aesthetically pleasing buildings due to its age. Most likely a 1950s or earlier build. In general if the build date isn't available (for this one it isn't) then it's a good bet that it's actually pre-war. The occupying Japanese destroyed much of the Colony's paperwork at that time.  The most interesting thing for me from this scene is that it shows where the old waterfront came to because I believe all those stilt houses were constructed on the mud banks of the harbourfront.

Anyway, this is the last Hong Kong location in this film. Although I still have a few Macau locations to post before I'm completely finished with it.



I did actually take a picture of this very building several years ago, but from the road looking up - not quite the angle required to match the film. But anyway, here how it was looking in 2016.

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