Monday, September 30, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Gloucester Road Pedestrian Bridge, Wanchai
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Mount Austin Road, The Peak
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Fu Kee Metals and Plumbing Engineering, Lockhart Road
Friday, September 27, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Big D Trading, Mongkok
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Cheung Hong Mansion, Fenwick Street
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Unnamed Clearing next to the Peak Tram
I've kept this location separate because I can't quite figure out if it has a name, or is perhaps part of Chatham Path that runs in a rather higgledy piggledy manner between May Road and Barker Road. Anyway, this is seen during one of Loy's dream sequences when he is dreaming about chatting with his deceased father. The location is more or less directly opposite the tennis court of Po Garden, so it's also possible that this is an extension of the podium of Grenville House. I doubt Google will let me place a marker where I want it to (it keeps snapping back to May Road or Grenville House), so here is a GoogleEarth link just to be clear.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - May Road, Mid-levels
Monday, September 23, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - The Peak Tram
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Cattle Depot Artists Village, Ma Tau Kok
This place operated as an abattoir until around 1969 when slaughtering duties were transferred to a new site in Cheung Sha Wan and this site was kept as a quarantine depot for various livestock including cattle, pigs and sheep. It remained in use until 1999 and anyone who was in Hong Kong in the 1990s may remember the livestock trains that used to roll down the East Rail (then KCR) line. I can always remember my first experience standing on the platform at Tai Po and watching everyone take a step or two back from the edge. I had no idea what was going on until the train rolled by and I was hit in the face with the smell of the pigs in the back. Quite overpowering.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Eastern Law Courts, Shau Kei Wan
Friday, September 20, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Morrison Hill Road, Wanchai
Thursday, September 19, 2024
In Search of Bruce Lee's Last Filming Location
If only Frank Djeng - the creator of the otherwise informative film - had got in touch. I know my blog stuff here is a bit niche, but the location of the fight has been public knowledge since 2009 when I was first able to track it down. In fact, it was one of my first big location scoops and was what sent me down the path of finding all the other places that make up these (now numbering in the thousands) location pages for Hong Kong-shot movies.
In fact, my old (granted, now deleted) historical blog even had a page called Bruce Lee's Hong Kong on which I detailed a significant number of Lee-related Hong Kong sites. It certainly seems to have been useful to a large number of people coming to Hong Kong and wanting a consolidated list of places to visit. It also formed the basis for some walking tours that I have decided to reinstate here (see the right hand side bar of the blog). Even before that I had written an article for Time Out in 2011 that identified the site. So I am a bit confused as to why it still seems to remain a mystery. Especially since some other information I have documented publicly (such as the appearance of the original Jumbo back in 2011) did make it into that little 'documentaryette'. Well, anyway, regardless of the reasons, it seems like a good idea to revive an old deleted post, from blog v.2 (when I was using Wordpress) in 2009, that detailed the events surrounding the location's eventual discovery.
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Johnston Road, Wanchai
After having a drink at the Honolulu Cafe, the pair walk back along the north side of Johnston Road. The last images shows them crossing to the south side outside the Tai Yau Building on the corner of Fleming Road.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Honolulu Cafe, 176-178 Hennessy Road
Anyway, this place also has a website, and several branches it seems, but it's the main site at 176-178 Hennessy Road that features in the film.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Queensway
Finally, a little shot that gives us a brief glimpse of the road that features in the film's title. This is a brief transition shot as the story jumps from Man-yu's new studio back to the reality of Loy's life in Wanchai. This is a view down Queensway showing the section where Hennessy Road, just beyond the brown Methodist Church HQ, smoothly becomes Queensway at the corner of Johnston Road. This shot was most likely filmed from the pedestrian bridge at the southern end of Arsenal Street.