Sunday, October 23, 2022

Blade in Hong Kong - Terry Lester (1985) - Wong Tai Sin Temple, Kowloon

Blade's father (played by Keye Luke) has waited decades to be selected to lead a special religious ceremony involving a priceless religious text. In reality, the bad guys want him to be killed or injured so they can get their own man to take his place in the ceremony and steal the book.

The room where the book is held is a very obvious studio set, but the temple setting where much of the action and dialog takes place was Wong Tai Sin Temple in Kowloon.


The subsequent foot chase takes place along the pavement next to Lung Cheung Road and the area between the temple and the road which, as you can see, was much busier back in the 80s. The area was cleared out when much of the temple area was remodelled and the estate was rebuilt in the late 1990s.
The chase ends when the book is bundled into a van at the bottom of Shatin Pass Road.

Shatin Pass Road
The buildings in the background are still standng on Fung Tak Road

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