Police Story - Jackie Chan (1985) - Villa Dos Vistas, Chuk Yeung Road

Here is a location that was originally identified by Daniel Thomas for his Hong Kong on Film blog several years ago (circa 2011) but he appears to have since deleted the post for some unknown reason. It's the large property that Ka Kui breaks into to rescue Salina from the gangsters and where he is set up for the murder of his corrupt colleague.

Sadly, this rather ostentatious property has gone - I'v since discovered it was called "Villa Dos Vistas". It's been redeveloped into a string of luxury housing (8 houses, in fact) that goes by the name of "Arcadia", located on Chuk Yeung Road in Sai Kung. The only recognisable thing still around is the pool that Ka Kui forces Salina to jump into from the roof to make her escape. That pool is located below in what was then a new development (actually, built in 1983) called "Sea View Villa". The development and its associated pool are still around.

The old house occupied a portion of land right on the top of a hill and that section is now occupied by houses 6, 7 & 8 of the development (it was that big). The long driveway you can see Jackie looking down from the front gate, is now the estate's main road with houses built along the left hand side of the former driveway.

Note the red building behind Jackie, this is #103 Chuk Yeung Road (still there)

Stuntman about to hit the deck

Sea View Villa pool below

It looks like JC and the crew were probably the last to use the house. It was demolished very soon after filming which is probably why it was available for use. The "Arcadia" development was completed in 1987. If you use Google Chrome, this link shows you what the view from the gate area looks like today.

The Young Master - Jackie Chan (1980) - Nr Wong Cheuk Yeung, Sai Kung

The finale of The Young Master takes place on a hillside for which we are given a few clues as to the true location. The first clue is the unmistakable view of the West Dam of High Island reservoir in the background of many angles. Here are a few for starters:

The dam wall pretty much faces a westerly direction so we can assume this location is somewhere NW. Next we can see the hillsides behind some of the closeups of Whang in Sik. Anyone who is familiar with Sai Kung's ridgelines will perhaps recognise some familiar shapes here in the form of Pyramid Hill and Bendy Hill (Wan/Kau Kuk Shan).

 Pyramid Hill is to the left of Whang in Sik

In the above shot we see the pointy bit of

Bendy Hill and (just) Ma On Shan to the right

Speaking of Ma On Shan, here is a shot of it from the angle of Sai Kung. Of course this gives us a fairly decent triangulation of where this scene was filmed. However, since I haven't walked up this particular hill (yet) I can only give an approximation of where it is.

Coupled with a few more shots that give us glimpses over the hills to the Tolo Channel away to the north (and even a brief view of Pat Sin Leng), it appears that JC and his crew traipsed up to a small area called Wong Chuk Yeung. At the top of Chuk Yeung Road the hillside flattens out considerably and the clues in the picture point to somewhere to the east of the village - near to the fire lookout. Possibly close to where Stage 4 of the Maclehose Trail passes. The proximity of the road means the film crew would have had no problem driving all their equipment and actors up there on a daily basis (this scene undoubtedly took a long time to shoot).

The scene of course ends with JC turning superhuman thanks to the wonderful anaesthetic powers of bong water.