She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Wu Kau Tang, North District

On my burnt-in subtitle version of this film, the place the Vietnamese gang lure the police to is called "Wu Gao Tam Park", but in reality it is usually referred to as "Wu Kau Tang" - a cluster of old villages just north of Tai Po and Plover Cove Reservoir. Ling arrives first to meet the "informant" and parks her car in the car park.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Hong Kong University Main Building

The interiors of the police station were filmed in the old main building of Hong Kong University. This isn't the first time it has been used as a police station (reminder: To Be Number One).

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Club BBoss, East TST

The establishing shot for the night club raid used a shot of the entrance of what was to become Club BBoss. The venue has had an interesing history over the years. Originally called "Club Volvo" (it can be seen in this form in Blade in Hong Kong), however, Volvo (the car company) found out and proceeded to sue the owners. Volvo won and the club owners agreed to change the club name to "Club Borubo" (Borubo was the Japanese pronunciation of "Volvo"). This occurred sometime around 1990 - and it's possibly this form of the club that can be seen in the images below.

The neon lights on the exterior in the shots below are significantly more extravagant than when the club was "Volvo", and even when it was "BBoss". If you look carefully though you can see the original neon signage behind the front section. So, a question for TST experts - was this the signage for when it was Club Borubo, or is this a prop stuck on the front for the film?

Anyway, the club became Club BBoss in the 90s and stayed that way until it closed down around ten years ago (as I write in 2026). It was recently reinvented and reopened as "Club Big Boss Generation" at the same venue, but I believe this life was short-lived and it closed down again within 2 months due to investor in-fighting.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Former Marine Police HQ

The police HQ in this film is the former Marine Police HQ in Tsim Sha Tsui. These days it is a boutique hotel. It's current name is FWD House 1881, but this is its thrid name since being reopened about 10 years ago. The building in the background is the Langham, but the view is now obscured by "One Peking". The interiors of the police station were anopther location though.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Fenwick Pier Street, Wanchai

Mina grabs a motorcycle and continues the chase along Fenwick Pier Street. You can see the side of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in the background. The lower three images are from the end of the car chase as the baddies crash. this last bit was filmed closer to the hotel. That area used to be an intersection but has since been turned into a roundabout.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Lung King Street, Wanchai

The bad guys stop their car and turn to shoot a truck at the side of the road, which explodes and creates a huge fireball through which Mina rides the motorcycle. This was filmed along Lung King Street. There used to be a sewage screening plant here (that's the low white wall you can see at the side of the road), which itself has been used as a filming location, but has been subsequently demolished. The road has also undergone some realignment following the last round of reclamation and the creation of the Central/Wanchai Bypass.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Hung Hing Road, Wanchai

Quite a few shots from the subsequent car chase were shot along Hung Hing Road next to the Cross Harbour Tunnel Entrance. The order of the images below is the same as the order in the film. You can see the concrete lattice roof of the tunnel entrance in the background of the second and third images.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Harbour Road Pedestrian Bridge

Following the princess's kidnapping, Mina runs to the pedestrian bridge that crosses Harbour Road and takes a few shots at it before jumping onto some nearby advertising banners. Here's the current view of the middle image.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - Grand Hyatt Hotel, Wanchai

The destination of the entourage is the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Wanchai. I just posted about this hotel a few weeks back for Ballad of a Small Player.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - HMS Tamar

The first mission we see that the police group assigned to is the protection of a foreign (Arab?) princess who is attending a fashion show. The entourage starts the journey to the show from inside the HMS Tamar compund and exits via the main gates leading onto Edinburgh Place. This area is now the PLA Central Barracks.

She Shoots Straight - Joyce Godenzi (1990) - St Margaret Mary's Church, Happy Valley

The next film is another local one, this time from 1990, She Shoots Straight starring Joyce Godenzi (the future Mrs Sammo Hung) as Police Inspector Mina Kao (Mina is Godenzi's real middle name) who marries into a police family and faces a little bit of push back from her husband's younger sister, Ling (Carina Lau), because of her mixed-race (Godenzi is Eurasian in real-life). A Vietnamese gang, led by Yuen Wah, is running rampant in Hong Kong and following an incident at a nightclub where one of them is killed, they take revenge on the police by killing Kao's husband, Bo (Tony Leung Ka-fai). All bets are off as Kao and Ling put aside their conflict and join together to take revenge on the gang.

The film starts with their wedding which was shot at the St Margaret Mary's Church in Happy Valley, it's the same location that we saw in Rich and Famous a couple of years back.

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Kwun Tong Police Station

It all ends at the police station as Gen Lai takes Xiao Rong in for all the naughty stuff he's been doing. Once again, it's a Shaw movie so it must be Kwun Tong Police Station.

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - 20 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong

Yet another Kowloon Tong location and this one with a bit of intriguing history behind it. The headquarters of the opposing gang is located at 20 Kent Road in Kowloon Tong. Xiao Rong is sent there by his boss to kill their boss. Failure to comply resulting in the death of his mum and sister. So he heads there on his motorbike. This one took a bit of locating because the property and it surroundings have changed significantly over the years. But there are a couple of clues that have helped lead to the identification. The first is the garden wall in the background of the first shot, behind the bike. This section of the wall doesn't exist anymore but there remains a section of it a little further up, belonging to #27 Kent Road.

The second clue comes from the background in the other direction. As Xiao Rong enters and leaves the property, we catch a glimpse of the roof of a property behind. It's quite a distinctive roof and, thankfully, is still around today. It belongs to the former "Air House" located at 1a Cornwall Street (the same building that was captured on camera in this post).

Sadly the property at #20 has changed significantly over the years and it was just recently demolished and completely rebuilt into a new building. What's interesting about this place, and you may already know this if you ever read my old, now deleted, history blog, is that it was the private house of infamous heroin kingpin, Ng Sik-ho aka "Limpy Ho".

Coincidentally (or not), Ho was convicted for his crimes in 1975, the same year this film was made, so it's quite possible the house was available for filming once it had been examined by the people investigating his crime. I have no idea who owned it at the time. In a later incarnation it was turned into a "Love Motel" (called the Kent Motel, I think?, the Chinese name was 根德小築) much in the same way as Bruce Lee's old house was. The owner basically filled in all the open spaces of the property (that can be seen in the screecaps) and turned it into a big rectangular block with maximum interior space (for max profits/usage) and operated it until around the time that COVID hit. Following its closure the building was demolished and redeveloped.

The house at the rear is 1a Cornwall Street

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Devon Road, Kowloon Tong

Another Kowloon Tong location as Xiao Rong is on his way to a job with another gangster. Their car is hit by a delivery boy on a bike and Rong takes pity on him and chastises his gansgter colleague for hitting the guy. The initial image shows us the view up Devon Road from Somerset Road.

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Sheung Sze Wan, Clearwater Bay

Xiao Rong accepts employment from the gangster boss and one of his first jobs is to hijack some people and rob them. This scene was shot above Sheung Sze Wan in Clearwater Bay. The whole area below them is now built up with village houses.

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Ho Tung Lau, Fo Tan

Xiao Rong has to make a delivery to a large house where a kung fu class is being taught. It turns out this is the HQ of the gang that had tried to extort him earlier. The location is the magnificent Ho Tung Lau that was located on the shorefront at Fo Tan until its demolition in 1979 to make way for the widening of Tai Po Road and construction of the MTR depot (which, by the way, is named Ho Tung Lau depot).

We've seen it once before on the blog where it was a drug factory in The Amsterdam Kill. In this film though we get to see it in the full light of day.