Monday, December 1, 2025

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Shun Fung Street, Hung Hom

The band member is discivered by the bad guys and beaten up for stealing the money. As the baddies decide what to do with him, he steals a car and drives away. It doesn't end well for him though as he loses control along Shun Fung Street and steers himself into the harbour. The Winner Building was a real place and located opposite Shun Fung Street on Yuk Yat Street. "Bayview" now sits on the site.

In the second image you can see the famous "Fish Tail Rock" (魚尾石) in the background. This rock formation was opriginally part of a small offshore islet called Hoi Sham Island. But during the 1960s the reclamation of Hung Hom Bay meant it was absorbed into the new waterfront. I'm not sure but I think the island had yet to be completely absorbed at the time of filming. These days the area has been turned into a small park called Hoi Sham Park. The images below show that the shoreline where the car is being fished out is the same shoreline that can be seen today i.e. no further reclamation has been done since then (at least for now...).

In the far background of that second shot you can also see the former Hok Yuen Power Station (far left) and the darker Green Island Cement Works next door. The owner of Green Island Cement, Li K-shing, went on to develop that whole area into what is now a development called "Laguna Verde".


Fish Tail Rock on the right

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