Royal Warriors - Michelle Yeoh (1986) - Lok Shun Path, Fo Tan

We stay in Shatin District but cross the river now as some more car jumping action takes place on Lok Shun Path. This is Fo Tan, so could possibly have been filmed around the same time as this scene. The highrises in the background belong to the newly constructed Jubilee Garden development. In the last image below you can see the low rise structure of the Shatin Racecourse stands with Ma On Shan in the background. I don't think you could jump a truck down here now, it's a bit crowded.

Royal Warriors - Michelle Yeoh (1986) - Sui Wo Road, Fo Tan

This is a road name that should be familiar to Jackie Chan fans because it's the same road where the infamous bus stunt happened in Police Story. This section of the road though is down in Fo Tan centre next to the Mecco Industrial Building. This is the first location the cars arrive at during the chase scene. Yamamoto's BMW does a jump across the junction with Fo Tan Road as he tries to catch up with the Raging Bull's truck.

City on Fire - Chow Yun Fat (1987) - Wo Shui Street, Fo Tan

Well, after a big of investigation it appears that the Jewelry factory heist sequence was filmed in (at least) three different locations. I've already posted the main location at the Chung Pak Commercial Building in Yau Tong but remarked that the shootout scenes didn't match the area. It turns out I was right and have found the street the police approach down before being shot up by the gangsters. It was filmed at Wo Shui Street in Fo Tan. The clue to finding this location was the train being unloaded in the far distance. This limited the location to somewhere near a siding along the old KCR track and eventually helped me locate the street in Fo Tan. However, in finding this location I then also realised that yet another street was used for the brief shot of the getaway cars speeding off around the corner, so the mystery isn't completely solved just yet.

Police Story - Jackie Chan (1985) - Sui Wo Road, Fo Tan

The bus chase ends with Jackie using a passersby's car to create a roadblock and makes the bus come to an abrupt stop and throw its occupants through the windows. If, like me, you grew up with Jonathan Ross's "Son of the Incredibly Strange Film Show" playing on a loop in the VCR, then you'll know that this was one of the film's stunts gone wrong. The guys were supposed to land on the "specially prepared car but instead landed in hospital" to quote (probably inaccurately, it's been a few years since I watched it) Jonathan Ross. Anyway, the scene was shot on Sui Wo Road in the hills above the Fotan industrial estate. Once again, a big credit to Daniel Thomas of Hong Kong on Film who was the first to locate the road way back when, and of course Andi has been up there for the great then/now comparison shots for Hong Kong Movie Tours.

Je l'aimais - Daniel Auteuil (2009) - Fo Tan Cooked Food Market, Fo Tan

One of the venues that the pair go to on their trips out is the cooked food market in Fo Tan. For those who don't know what these places are they are the HK equivalent of Singapore's Hawker Bazaars - essentially a cluster of informal eateries serving cheap but usually excellent quality food. Despite them being a thriving and excellent part of HK food culture, the HK government hates al fresco dining (the HK Govt hates anyone enjoying themselves) and likes them to be inside and out of everybody's way, and so there are a bunch of purpose-built cooked food centres all over Hong Kong serving really good food but lacking the outdoor environment.

Fo Tan is one of those places where the outdoor 'dai pai dong' format still exists and it's well worth a visit. I was at this very same place just a few months ago before the COVID19 measures were put into place and it was excellent. The Govt punishes these places by denying them alcohol licenses but the proprietors just tell you to head up the road to the local 7-11 or 759 store and buy some cheap beer and they will provide ice buckets and bottle openers for those wanting some beer refreshment.

Les Anges Gardiens - Gerard Depardieu (1995) - Shatin Racecourse, Fo Tan

Here's one that was a bit of a surprise. The location is a stand in for the Kai Tak airport area which looks as though it was probably out of bounds for filming - understandably considering how busy the place used to get. So instead of Kai Tak airport, we get an amalgam of several places, the first is this one. It's the car park next to Shatin Race Course. The giveaway was the strange structure behind Clavier in the top image - it's one of the viewing towers that looks over the race course.

The rest of the images are shot in the car park area with views over to the construction of the Royal Ascot residential development (see in the background swathed in bamboo scaffolding and green safety netting). A quick check on Centamap confirms it was completed in 1995.

 The sequence was shot to hide the main stand which would be to the right in this lower shot, but the walkways and other structures here are still around - except for the obviously fake airport signage, of course.