Saturday, August 24, 2024

Yakuza on Foot - Tomisaburô Wakayama (1969) - Queen's Road Central

You might recognise the next sequence as being filmed on the section of Queens Road Central just up from the junction of Wellington Street and continuing around to Hillier Street area. Look closely at image 2 and you can see at the top of the frame is one of the domes that belonged to the Central Theatre - located where Central Mansion now stands at 270-276 QRE. There was a big discussion on Gwulo many years ago about what this roof belonged to until it was solved by user 'Herostratus'. This sequence is also reminiscent of the opening ambulance scene in Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, which tracks the ambulance down the same stretch of road at one point, however, I neglected to post it back in the day, so perhaps will chuck it up in a couple of weeks.

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