In Yellow Emanuelle, the house is empty, but as Emy buys furniture the room starts to fill up with the exact same stuff that can be seen in the later film, including the same electronic piano/keyboard, the same settee and chair, and the very same side lamps.
I wonder if the property was owned by a local film contact or that it was just lucrative for the owner to let it out for filming?
I should say this isn't the first time a property has been used for different movies. Old timers will recall I posted about the house used as Bruce Lee's house in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was the same one owned by Chuck Norris' boss in Forced Vengeance. Click the links for a reminder.
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Saw this post a few weeks back then had a look at the two biggest estates agents websites for the (free) landreg transactions. Neither sites showed any transactions in this development at all from '64. I assumed they were all rental only, which would be most unlikely until I just found another site that showed some transactions through the years though not this house in particular.
I wonder just how lucrative it was to rent out such a property for a movie shoot that couldn't have went for more than a couple days. TVB back in the '70s through '90s routinely rented a house on The Peak - I think at the top of Mount Kellett Road - whenever the plot called for showing a rich, old bloke at home.
Hi Rodney, I have no idea how this would work. Most rentals I know about in HK are for longer durations than just a few days which is why I assumed someone must have been living there and agreed to disappear for a day or two. I'm still wondering how the film makers behind "Vanessa" convinced the Harilela family to let them film loads of shagging in their Kowloon Tong Property: https://hkmacaufilmtvlocations.blogspot.com/2019/04/vanessa-olivia-pascal-1977-harilela.html
"Vanessa" filmed at The Repulse Bay Hotel and Kadoorie Farm, so perhaps the relevant industry associations and/or tourist board at the time were able to convince the esteemed hoteliers that the film was a lavish international production and forgot to check the script for the lesbian shagging scenes first.
IMDB notes filming was from December '75 to January '76. If the dates are correct, then the TST flagship had just opened after delays and cost overruns on construction.
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