The Fighting Dragon - Yasuaki Kurata (1975) - Avenida da República, Macau

The pedicab takes Lung along the old coastal road of the Avenida da República where he is rammed by the baddies car after the pedicab driver deserts him. It looks as though some sections of this sequence were filmed on another road, possibly the (former) Avenida do Dr. Oliveira Salazar, but there's not enough background information to confirm so I will leave those screencaps out for the time being.

Rich and Famous - Chow Yun Fat (1987) - Avenida da República, Macau

The establising shots for the Macau shootout were done along Avenida da Republica. The first showing a couple of pedicabs heading south on one of the bends. The last image shows a building that is still around, albeit with a new roof. I can't quite workout what the building was used for back in 1987 - Macau experts please feel free to comment - but I can tell you now that the roof was replaced and it now operates as the Macau centre for the "Cruz Vermelha de Macau" aka Macau Red Cross. It's located at #60 Avenida da Republica and just so happens to be next to the plot that contained this place.

Pedicab Driver - Sammo Hung (1989) - Hotel Bela Vista Driveway, Macau

In one scene, Cake (Lowell Lo), takes a passenger up a really steep hill and can barely move his legs to turn the pedals. This scene was filmed on the driveway that leads from Avenida da República up to the former Bela Vista Hotel (now the official residence of the Portuguese Consul). I don't think the drive has a name but it looks pretty much the same today as it did back then, although the aerial google views show that it has a new surface on it - perhaps done prior to the 1999 handover when the hotel became the Consul's residence? (I'm just guessing though).

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Hotel Caravela, Macau

It took a while for me to find the identity of this building but finally prevailed. I also found out that the website that helped in my search has been secretly pinching my screencaps for the past 10 years and never once provided a linkback. He's not the first and won't be the last. Such is life. Paul Li, Hong Kong's foremost expert on Bruce Lee, once told me someone from Mainland China had taken all my Bruce Lee content (from both blogs) and passed it off as their own stuff. There's really not much I can do about it I'm afraid. People generally suck.

Anyway, this is Hotel Caravela, one of Macau's early (circa 50s) smaller, boutique hotels. However, the house was originally built in the 1920s by Bernardino de Senna Fernandes as his family home. Sadly, despite Macau's better form in terms of preserving old buildings (although that now seems to be changing) this place was demolished in the late 70s to make way for...nothing! At least that's according to Macau's only available Streetview images for the location (62-64 Avenida da República) which is dated 2008. The problem is I can't go back and provide a more up-to-date check because no one is currently allowed into Macau due to the ongoing Covid problem. Anyway, if you click on that Streetview link you can see that despite the building going, the hotel's front steps and distinctive front wall are still intact.

The hotel doesn't really feature at all in the film other than a quick shot as some cars drive by but it's interesting to find out where it was.