Dead or Alive: Final - Shô Aikawa (2002) - Hang Hau Wing Lung Road, Sai Kung

New year, new film and this time back just a few years to 2002 when Takeshi Miike was in town to direct a dystopian (ish) scifi thriller, Dead or Alive: Final, starring Shô Aikawa as a former battle cyborg wandering around Yokohama. In fact, it was entirely shot in Hong Kong. The film starts at the family home of Officer Honda (Riki Takeuchi), a Yokohama police officer responsible for rounding up gangsters and people with illegal pregnancies - births are Govt regulated in the future.

Anyway, it looks to me as though the location for Honda's house is located along Hang Hau Wing Lung Road in the Clearwater Bay area of Sai Kung District. It's hard to see from what's publicly available online but I think this is House 4 of Wing Lung Villas. Google Streetview shows the same 6-pane window of that house and matching wiggly ceiling decorations here (you need Chrome to view, I think).

Man of Tai Chi - Keanu Reeves (2013) - Ngam Tau Sha, Sai Kung

Reeves' mansion in the film, a place where Karen Mok spends an inordinate amount of time spying on him, was supposedly on some nondescript part of the Hong Kong coast. The actual scenes of the estate look to have been filmed elsewhere but the external shots were all done over in Sai Kung by Little Palm Beach, on a small promontory called Ngam Tau Sha. I believe older readers who were in Hong Kong before the handover may recall it was also informally called "Target Island" for a while because the airforce and navy would use it for target practice. Large wooden bulls-eye targets were erected on the flat part of the land and then subsequently bombed and strafed with gun fire. In reality, it now houses a couple of private residences and a sailing club.