Police Force - Wang Chung (1973) - Fei Ngo Shan

Following his victory in the karate competition, Ling Kuan (Fu Sheng) and Shen Yan (Lily Li), go up to Kowloon Peak to take some photos when they are accosted by the two thugs. The main thug, Kao Tu (Wang Kuang-yu), has just watched Liang win the karate tournament and so he ties his hands to stop him fighting back properly.

Following the attack, the sequence moves to the north side of the hill, close to where Gillwell Camp is located. In fact. the green painted sign seen in the images below *might* be an old sign to the camp. Although I'm not sure. The sign has long gone but that small area looks fairly similar today. The images below are all taken from the same spot but looking in two directions See here. It's now all part of the Wilson Trail Stage 4.

Police Force - Wang Chung (1973) - Police Training School, Wong Chuk Hang

The Celestial channel on Youtube keeps pumping out some great movies. Next up is Police Force, a sort of modern day kung fu film from Chang Cheh centering around a Police Inspector Wong (Wang Chung, the actor, not the 80s pop group) who joins the police when his best friend, played by Fu Sheng, is brutally murdered by some thugs. This is actually a great film with lots of new exterior locations to explore. There's even a very young Fung Hak-on as Wong's right hand man. The film starts with some footage of new recruits marching around the parade ground at the Police Training School in Wong Chuk Hang. More as a stage setting than anything else because I'm not sure any of the main characters are supposed to be in the Police at this point. There is also some footage later in the film as Wong goes through his training as a new recruit.

I did send a couple of screenshots to a former Marine Policeman (Les Bird - please check out his latest book from Blacksmith Books) and he reminisced about marching around the very same parade ground during his training, not too long after this film was made.

Company - Aja Devgan (2002) - The Peak Viewing Tower

A couple of scenes were shot on the roof terrace of the Peak Viewing Tower. The first shot is just a rather disjointed one of Mallik smoking a cigarette and there's no evidence that he is on the tower other than the angles of the buildings in the background which perfectly match a later scene as Chandu goes there with his girlfriend for some refreshments.

Company - Ajay Devgan (2002) - Fenwick Pier Street Flyover

Another car shot, this time on the flyover that connects Fenwick Pier Street with Harcourt Road. The curved glass building in the background is the CITIC tower building which I featured not so long ago for Hitman.

Company - Ajay Devgan (2002) - Hung Hing Road Flyover

A couple of shots of the group as they make their way from the airport to their hotel. These images were taken as their car drives along the Hung Hing Road Flyover in Wanchai.

Company - Ajay Devgan (2002) - Aberdeen Harbour

Mallik and friends spends the day on a boat discussing business. This was all shot inside the confines of Aberdeen Harbour.

Company - Ajay Devgan (2002) - Kau Sai San Tsuen, Sai Kung

Chandu and his girlfriend have rented a small house out in Hebe Haven in Sai Kung. It took a bit of hunting but it looks like this property is #110 Kai Sau San Tsuen (though the Govt mapping website lists the address as 110 Pak Sha Wan). The open view down to the harbour from the front window though is now obscured because in the years since the film was made, another house has been built right smack bang in front of it.

This is also where Chandu and his girlfriend have to flee from when Mallik sends his goons after them.

Sadly, the Google marker facility on Blogger is so poor that the house doesn't even show up on the map, so instead I have tagged the carpark you can see on the right in the image below and you can try and work it out for yourself from there. On an aside, the Geoinfo map provided by the Govt mapping service has an updated 3D view of the whole territory, much better than what is currently available on GoogleEarth, so for places like Sai Kung (which has no 3D at all on GE) this is a really useful tool, although it takes a while to load the 3D.

Company - Ajay Devgan (2002) - The Regent Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui

As you are probably sick of hearing from me by now, the Intercontinental Hotel in Kowloon has been rebranded to The Regent following the IHG acquisition of Regent Hotels. This hotel really does seem to be the most popular one for film companies coming to Hong Kong. Even this same suite with the direct rooftop access has been used multiple times now. In Company, this is where Mallik sets up shop with his cronies, leaving Chandu and his girlfriend to go and rent a place elsewhere. A significant amount of the Hong Kong scenes were shot in the suite and adjacent terrace.

Company - Ajay Devgan (2002) - Hong Kong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok

Shot in 2002, Company is a Hindi-language Indian film, supposedly based on some real life gangster shenanigans, that centres around the relationship of a major gangster, Mallik (Ajay Devgan) and his trusted associate, Chandu (Vivek Oberoi). I wish there was an English S/T of this film because it really was good, despite me not understanding the language. If you want to watch the version I saw, then you can find it on this Youtube channel.

Anyway, Mallik and Chandu move to Hong Kong and plan more of their nefarious work from here until a contract they have been hired to carry out causes dissension between the two men. Chandu wants to abort the elaborate vehicle hijack but Mallik carries it out anyway. More than half the film has already passed at this point and Chandu flees as Mallik tries to get him and his girlfriend eliminated. What follows is about 30 minutes of tit-for-tat killing as the Indian police standby and let it all play out.

The first Hong Kong scenes we see is as the gangsters arrive at Hong Kong Airport with their entourage.

Baraka - Ron Fricke (1992) - Tung Tau Estate, Kowloon

Adjacent to Kowloon Walled City was the former Tung Tau Estate. You can see some of the original resettlement estate buildings in this post, however, by the 1980s much of the original housing stock had been replaced by the buildings still standing today. The two exceptions are blocks 22 and 23 which appear in the image below.

This image basically shows the view looking up Lok Sin Road. Block 23 can be seen on the right with Block 22 on the left. Block 23 was demolished in 2003 and Block 22 in 2014. Both were turned into two parts of a smaller separate estate called the Tung Wui Estate.

Block 22 was the last block of the old estate to be demolished (it was built in 1965) and can still be seen (cleaned up) in historical Streetview imagery between 2009 - 2011 (Streetview took a long break between 2011 - 2016).  The lower image shows a close up of the front of Block 22.