Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog! - Sammo Hung (1978) - nr Wong Chuk Yeung, Sai Kung

Here we are back again at another of the popular filming locations from 70s- and 80s-era kung fu movies. This is near the fire lookout at Wong Chuk Yeung. As explained recently, it's completely overgrown now and unrecognisable, but you can get reasonably close via a nearby trail. This is where the fight between Tiger, Frog and White Brow Monk (Lee Hoi-sang) takes place.

View to Three Fathoms Cove in the background

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.

Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog! - Sammo Hung (1978) - Yap Hiu Pavilion

Credit to Andi for identifying this location over in Tuen Mun, it's Yap Hiu Pavilion (邑曉亭 - Yap1 Hiu2 Ting4). This is the location where Mars goes to get a tea seller to serve Sammo and Lau Kar-wing some poison tea.

Anyone who has made the effort to go to Tsing Shan Monastery (and if you are a Bruce fan and haven't been, then it really is a must see for the "Lao's Time" and "Monk Talk" scenes) then you will pass this pavilion as you walk up Tsing Shan Monastery Path. I took this photo below back in 2007 when I first made the trip up there after moving to Hong Kong the previous year. It was probably recently repainted a the time because later images show the paint work is fading once again,

Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog! - Sammo Hung (1978) - Ho Sheung Heung

The area where Tiger and Frog are confronted by Panther (Dean Shek), the casino owner, is a familiar one to this site because I was the one who was able to identify for Enter the Dragon. Yes, we're back in Ho Sheung Heung and the "fung shui" hills behind the village. The key giveaway here is the presence of Tai Shek Mo in the background with its recognisable crooked peak (see image 2). Quite a few of the scenes in this movie show a lot of mist/fog/low cloud and this is very typical weather for Hong Kong around Feb/March time.

Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog! - Sammo Hung (1978) - Fanling Babies Home, Fanling

Next up is Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog!, one of those late 70s kung fu films that would feel a bit generic if it wasn't for the presence of Sammo in the role of Frog, a gold digging opportunist who married a wealthy old woman in order to get access to her family heirloom - a knitted metal pullover that makes its wearer impervious to blades.

He runs off with it but loses it to some con artists and teams up with the bounty hunter, Tiger (Lau Kar-wing), to get it back. It's directed by Karl Maka (who makes a brief appearance, with hair, as a local policeman) so expect that level of humour. One of the funniest bits for me is when Frog's old wife turns to weep at a portrait of her father and it's quite obviously a drawing of a snarling Richard Ng.

Anyway, the film kicks off with some local thugs attempting to best Tiger by sneaking up on him. This whole sequence was filmed at Lai Yue Hing Tong (賴餘馨堂) aka the Fanling Babies Home. This old mansion was a popular filming location until its demolition in the early 1990s. I think the most recent production to film there featured on the blog is probably Shadow of China (1989).