Bloodfight - Yasuaki Kurata (1989) - Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei

For the neon light fans out there - sadly mostly now replaced by LED or otherwise completely removed, just like everything else that made Hong Kong special - here is a brief night sequence. I thought these lights seemed familiar, and it turns out they were. Check out this post for Powaqqatsi. But here's the thing, the Powaqqatsi footage was a year or so before this film, but appears to be more up to date (it shows the "New Buckingham Nightclub"), so I can only conclude that this Bloodfight footage is older, borrowed/licensed footage.

Powaqqatsi - Godfrey Reggio (1988) - Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei

It should be noted that most of Hong Kong and Kowloon is now completely devoid of the neon signage that can be seen below. Many establishments have switched to more energy efficient LED lighting, but the main reason is because the Govt has decreed that lots of these signs are not safe to have hanging above peoples' heads and so they've largely been removed.

The New Buckingham Restaurant and Club appears to have disappeared, but its name pointed me to the Buckingham Building at the corner of Nathan and Ning Po Streets. Lo-and-behold the "Jade City" Karaoke Niteclub  (翡翠城) - the sign with the pink writing on the left of the third image - is still around. These places have extreme longevity because most often than not they are owned and run by triads. Let's face it, if you're the landlord of this building, are you brave enough to raise their rent?