Showing posts with label Chong Ha Ching Sze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chong Ha Ching Sze. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2025

Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog! - Sammo Hung (1978) - Chong Ha Ching Sze, Fanling

Here's another location that I spent a significant amount of time tracking down for my Snake in the Eagle's Shadow posts. Since then it has popped up a couple of times (quite recently with this Dragon's Claws post). Once found these places are fairly easy to subsequently recognise. In this film, this old building is the brothel where Frog and Tiger go to lure the Coffin King's henchman into a trap.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Dragon's Claws - Lau Kar-yung (1979) - Chong Ha Ching Sze, Fanling

The "back of the school" scenes where we see the living quarters of the family were filmed at another location I identified a few years ago for Snake in the Eagle's Shadow. It's called Chong Ha Ching Sze and is a Taoist retreat/temple so I am not sure of how easy it is to enter. The exterior garden at least seems to be accessible to the general public. I have yet to go there despite identifying it several years ago.

In this night time scene it was the moon gate and adjacent windows that gave away the location. You can compare it to the screen cap from the link above.

Monday, November 8, 2021

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow - Jackie Chan (1978) - Chong Ha Ching Sze, Fanling

Now a private temple (wiki says Taoist, map says Buddhist) called "Chong Ha Ching Sze" (藏霞精舍), the style of building is reminiscent of the old village ancestral and/or study halls that are still quite common in the New territories. However, its Chinese wiki pages states that the building was constructed in the 1950s. If this is true then it's a good facsimile of traditional village architecture. It's located next to Hong Lok Park - a rather pleasantly landscaped Chinese style garden on San wan Road. 

This is the venue that is supposed to be a guest house and is where we are first introduced to Yuen Siu-tin's character as he first battles mosquitoes and then the staff as they attempt to kick him out. The key identifier here (or at least the one that sealed the deal for me) is the style of railing on the upper floor balcony of the courtyard. If you look at the second to last screencap below (of Yuen sitting on top of one of the staff) you can see that the railing style matches this photo of the interior. Obviously the place has been spruced up a bit since 1978 but it's nice to know it's still around.