After leaving the
Yuen Yuen Institute, Musashi is undergoing a personal crisis as he grapples with whether or not he should be helping Wu. The following sequence was shot at the junction between Fei Ha Road and Fei Ngo Shan Road. Musashi is stopped by one of Wu's friends, Chang (Gwan Jing-leung) who asks him to try and find out some information for them about the bosses movements. However, the pair are spotted by a couple of the boss's henchmen.
The first image below shows the view down Fei Ha Road as Chang races to catch up with Musashi. The following images shows the junction as the car turns around on the curve. The final image shows what was the art-deco style property at #6 Fei Ngo Shan Road in the background. Remember that property because it will pop up in another film I have lined up after this one.
Looking down Fei Ha Road from the junction
The junction between Fei Ngo Shan Rd and Fei Ha Road
The art-deco spire of 6 Fei Ngo Shan Road in the background
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Nice find. I hope this property's interior is used in the film you have lined out. It seems the house in the screencaps lasted until 2017, but it is a construction site now.
There were a couple of burglaries that received press coverage. A newspaper article mentioned the house was renovated in 2013, though it looked largely the same as the early aerials and 1970s maps. The house was only 3,322 sq. ft. on a 29,910 sq. ft., so naturally it would be demolished.
The futuristic house with the cantilevered decks at the junction of Fei Ngo Shan Road and Fei Wan Road was named 'Cairnmount' on a couple of old maps. I didn't spot the name when I looked after seeing your Red Dragon post. Let's hope that house appeared on film.
Sadly, no, the upcoming movie is a Shaw's production and the interior is most definitely a studio. I still can't believe how many great looking houses were up there - so much better than the boring concrete boxes that most modern HK houses are. I'll have to keep an eye out for Cairnmount...one day it just might appear, you never know.
Cairnmount was possibly a Kowloon Wharf & Godown property. The references to the address all pointed to the resident being H M G "Gerry" Forsgate, who served as General Manager of Wharf until 1979. The futuristic house was still standing in aerial photos as late as June 1988 and the occupational permits for the current five-houses, Ming Wah Yuen, on the site were issued in December 1990.
There have been no transactions because the entire development has a single owner, who bought it in 1997. If he was able to buy all five in one go, then they must have had a single owner from the redevelopment as well.
Seems like the baddies changed their car during the film. In the screencap in front of Furama, the car was an Aussie-built Ford Falcon XW. The car in this Fei Ngo Shan scene looks like the related Ford Fairlane ZD, still Australian-built.
Phil, did you happen to catch the license plate number on the Fairlane in this or any other scene?
Wow, I wish I could afford to buy 5 large houses in HK!! haha
No,sadly the film quality is quite poor but if you want to have a looksee you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/gqRMWmP5068?si=1XIbmcJuWPyqlh2t
Thanks, Phil. The car on Fei Ngo Shan was also a Falcon, not the larger Fairlane I thought. The reason I asked is because I saw an Aussie Ford on an old TVB series yesterday. That TVB car was exactly the same colour, dark red with vinyl roof, as the baddies' here. By the way, the driving baddie that spots Musashi acted for TVB well into the 2000s.
I wonder why so many architecturally-interesting houses were built on Fei Ngo Shan back then. Larger lots were available around Clear Water Bay Road and Hang Hau, but those houses tended to be more conservative.
no worries Rodney. It's an interesting question about the houses. Why was it developed in this way when building on the island or elsewhere had much more status? I would love to find out more about the history of the area as the residents were obviously (as they still are) quite wealthy. Maybe it was just a bitmore secluded? Unfortunately it means there are hardly any photos of the houses - that I know of anyway.
The original six Customs Pass houses seemed to have been constructed by Holt's Wharf for its staff according to the caption to this picture. https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2b88qg23h
Here is a real gem. This link shows the futuristic house in all its groovy, 1960s glory. https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/gf06g5671
There a few newer, colour pictures in the HKU Library Digital Repository of the area, but none of them show the futuristic house as clearly as the black and white panorama.
wow Rodney, great find. I take my hat off to you for tracking down that. Excellent stuff. That round house looks totally awesome.
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