Four Assassins - Will Yun Lee (2011) - Shamrock Hotel, Nathan Road

Despite an illustrious history and career in local 50s and 60s Cantonese movies (so I've been told), this is the first time I've seen the Shamrock Hotel on a modern foreign production. Opened in 1952, the Shamrock Hotel was once the tallest building in Kowloon which is quite hard to imagine given by how relatively small it is these days. There was a demolition scare a few years ago when the owner put it up for sale, but it seems that either the owner had a change of heart, or the new owner has, and has turned it into what I believe might be serviced apartments. Its name has been changed to Synloc Tower.

In the film this is, supposedly, the main setting for much of the story as the hotel where the four killers meet up, and as such we are given several establishing shots of the hotel disguised as the "Shum Shui Hotel".

Despite being set in the "Shum Shui Hotel", the interiors were shot in a specially constructed set in one of the buildings in the old Perowne Camp in Tuen Mun. Don't take my word for it, you can see some of the production photos over at the film's old website (https://www.fourassassins-movie.com/the-location-2/). I don't recognise the main building in the top photo but I suspect all of the interiors were shot in one or more of the old buildings at the former camp. Once occupied by Ghurkas, part of the camp has been redeveloped into a residential condominim complex called "The Royale"- although I believe the old temple has been preserved - the rest of the camp is currently used by the Crossroads Foundation.