Away with Words - Tadanobu Asano (1999) - Peak Police Station, Peak Road

The only other major location I can get from this film is the Peak Police Station, and even then it is revealed as an on-screen title so it didn't need any specific powers of identification other than the ability to pay attention and read. There's actually quite a few shots filmed up here including one of the "Peak" scale model (built July 1953) that sits in the station grounds and in which a drunk Kevin decides to go for a dip (bottom image).

Away with Words - Tadanobu Asano (1999) - Victoria Harbour

Sadly, this next film, Away with Words, has few locations that I can realistically identify due to the rather generic nature of many of Hong Kong's myriad alleyways, but I feel it's worthy of inclusion because it was directed by renowned Cinematographer and long time HK resident, Christopher Doyle.

It's a story about a Japanese man, Takashi, (Tadanobu Asano - last seen on this blog in the later Invisible Waves), affected by synesthesia (yeah, I had to look it up as well) who comes to Hong Kong and ends up in a dingey nightclub run by Kevin (a very entertaining, Kevin Sherlock). Some accommodating person has loaded the full film onto Youtube so please go and watch.

The first sight we have of Hong Kong is a rather rainy one of the harbour as Takashi arrives on a boat. Quite apt because it is absolutely chucking it down as I type (welcome to HK summertime).