Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Nga Tsin Long Road , Kowloon City

I've been doing a bit of spring cleaning on my increasingly creaky desktop and found a couple of images from Godzilla vs Destroyah that I never made into a post. I have no idea if I forgot at the time or just didn't know where the location was. Anyway, after a quick look I can see that this shot was taken at the junction of Nga Tsin Wai Road and Nga Tsin Long Road. The giveaway in this case is the corner of the market building that can be seen on the right of the upper image. The older buildings are still there for the time being.

Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Nathan Road, Kowloon

A final post from Godzilla vs. Destroyah and another quick shot from Nathan Road. This time we are a little further along to the north where Bowring Street joins onto Nathan Road. The camera was placed somewhere in front of the Shamrock Hotel looking north. The glass fronted building on the left is the Pearl Oriental Tower on the corner of Bowring Street.

Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Our next post from Godzilla vs. Destroyah shows our reptilian friend shooting laser breath and knocking down buildings on Nathan Road in TST. These images show the view taken from the southern end of Nathan Road where Mody Road joins onto it, so that would place Godzilla stomping around at the southern end of Kowloon Park.

You can see the Yue Hwa sign and the Emperor Watch and Jewellery one a bit further up the road on the left hand side. Interestingly, there appears to be a place called the "Wuthering Heights Pub and Restaurant" on the corner of Mody Road. It's not one I've heard of before but perhaps someone else remembers it.

Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Wanchai, Hong Kong

A quick hop, skip and jump over to Wanchai as Godzilla then stomps past Central Plaza whilst continuing to wreak devastation to the surrounding area before popping across the harbour to give Kowloon some grief.

Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen

Almost immediately after causing a plane to make an emergency turn away from his gnashing teeth and laser breath, Godzilla pops up to wreak havoc amongst the patrons of the Jumbo Floating restaurant. Cue some rather dodgy looking back projected mayhem shot around the restaurant and also the pontoons over at Shum Wan Pier Drive.

Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Lion Pavilion, The Peak

A quick brief shot from the Lion's Club Pavilion on the peak from this film. This is the calm before the storm because Godzilla doesn't rear his ugly head (literally) until the night time. 1995 looks about right for this view because you can just see some of the West Kowloon Reclamation behind the pavilion roof. Incidentally, this is the view that matches, more or less, my own pictures from this time (my first trip to Hong Kong was a month long sojourn in November of 1995).

Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Kai Tak Airport

More airport action from our next film, Godzilla vs. Destroyah, which uses some brief Hong Kong locations at the very beginning of the film before switching back to Japan for the remainder of the movie. In this film, a newly radioactive Godzilla pops up in Hong Kong harbour and lays waste to a few places before disappearing again. This time he has glowing red spines and is essentially a walking nuclear time bomb.

In the opening scene we see a Qantas aircraft coming in to land at Kai Tak and then later, as the plane takes off in he evening, Godzilla pops up at the end of the runway and the jet just manages to veer out of the way before catastrophe strikes.