About

Welcome to my blog about filming locations in Hong Kong and Macau where I do deep dives into the (sometimes most insignificant) filming locations from overseas and local movie and TV productions.

This blog started life circa 2006 on a Livespace (Oriental Sweetlips - named after a fish, by the way) as a general exploration of HK with some film locations scattered here and there before moving to Wordpress (2008 - 2010) and then Blogger (2011). This current version is Blogger v.2 (launched September 2022) because I stupidly deleted the original in July 2022 - just a few thousand short of my millionth hit. Such is life. I had two blogs with similar names and deleted the wrong one. Luckily I had a recent backup.

Anyway, understanding that in amongst the general noise of the blog there are some significant discoveries that may or may not be of use to Hong Kong historians (film or otherwise) in the future, and some that have disproven long-running/well-established assumptions about certain locations and movies, I feel duty bound to continue. Plus I'm a nerd at heart and this stuff fascinates me.

As a result of the Blogger domain change (they wouldn't let me restore under the original one) quite a few links will be incorrect as they still point to the old site URLs and I am slowly getting around to fixing them. However, if you replace the initial hongkongandmacaufilmstuff with hkmacaufilmtvlocations then this should work for most of them.

If you have a specific location you need to know about, then feel free to leave a comment and ask and (if you provide decent enough screencaps or a link to a film) I will take a look. Caveat: by its very nature this blog is a collection of my successes, what you don't see is the hundreds of places I have been unable to locate due to a variety of reasons (e.g. lack of clues, poor quality screencaps, passage of time etc). I'm pretty good at this stuff thanks to my deep knowledge of Hong Kong, but sometimes things just allude me.