Showing posts with label Cape Collinson Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cape Collinson Road. Show all posts

Friday, July 11, 2025

Hong Kong Godfather - Leung Kar-yan (1985) - Cape Collinson Crematorium, Tai Tam Gap

Following the assassination of Han during the chaos of the previous attack, Boss Han is cremated at the Cape Collinson Crematorium. The area where the filming took place has since been redeveloped into a much bigger complex and nothing we see on screen remains.

Coincidentally (or not, seeing as there is only about 5 authorised crematoriums in HK) this is the location of Sir Run Run Shaw's cremation in 2014 (this is a Shaw film in case you weren't aware).

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Yellow Emanuelle- Chai Lee (1977) - Cape Collinson Road, Hong Kong

George gets sent back to London and Emy is distraught because she doesn't hear from him for ages. She considers ending it all before being plucked away from the cliff edge by a passing good samaritan (or not so good as it turns out). This scene was filmed along Cape Collinson Road. The land in the background looks like an island but is actually the Clearwater Bay peninsula. Here is a similar view from the very awesome film Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine.

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine - Jean-Paul Belmondo (1965) - Cape Collinson Road, Hong Kong

Back to the 1960's again for this next film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Ursula Andress. The English name for the film is Up to His Ears for some strange reason. Based on a book by Jules Verne it is a rather entertaining comedy about a young millionaire who wants to kill himself but then has a change of heart. The film looks like it went all over Hong Kong and there are some new (and as of yet, undetermined) locations to see.

We'll start off with this one over on Cape Collinson Road on the very eastern edge of Hong Kong Island. It's the beginning of the film when Belmondo deliberately cuts his own car brakes so that he will crash and burn. The scene looks to have used two (or more) separate locations but one of them is most definitely Cape Collinson as we can see from the views. The opening shot shows Belmondo looking out across a vista. The islands at the back are actually the Clearwater Bay peninsula and Tung Lung Chau (the tip can be seen on the right hand side).


Where the car actually crashes down the cliff and bursts into flames is a part of the cliff side that is close to where the "Correctional Institute" (HK's euphemism for a prison) now stands. Sadly the Google car doesn't go there due to the entrance of the prison but here is the screen shot anyway. The cameraman would've been inside the prison's grounds.


The next shot shows Belmondo's benefactors turning up in a car. We get a very brief glimpse up the road to a building. The building has since been replaced by a structure that holds a Fire Services reservoir water tank, but look to the far right in the screen grab and you will see a flat wall (purpose unknown) that is still there (centre screen up the road in the Streetview picture).


Finally, as they get out of the car we catch another view down the road to the terrain at the back which is actually Shek O and the D'Aguilar peninsula - including D'Aguilar Peak (Hok Tsui Shan) which is the big hill above the woman's head.