Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Square Street, Sheung Wan

The end of the film sees them catching a cab and it stops outside Ruby's apartment. It turns out she lives on Square Street and the cab stops right outside Rich View Terrace (with the striped awning on the right).

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Sense 99, Wellington Street

Just a couple of places to go for this film now and this one is another real venue and one that, this time, I can actually say I have been to. Sense 99 on Wellington Street was a live music venue/bar housed in one of the very skinny Chinese tenements that proliferate around many parts of Hong Kong. This is where Josh gets caught in a bit of a situation by one of his girlfriend's mates. Whoops!

Sadly, this rather nice (but noisy!) location closed down last year after the greedy landlord decided to up the rent by some ridiculous, but par for the course in HK, amount and the place had to move. I believe its new location is just up the road on Peel Street. Of course, what with Coronavirus doing the rounds, it may have closed down again already.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Cross Harbour Tunnel Entrance, Kowloon

I guess this is the way that the film maker wants us to know that the action is moving back across the harbour because we get this rather excellent view of the tunnel entrance. This was obviously shot from the pedestrian footbridge that joins Hung Hom Station with East TST.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Another one of the general shots around Kowloon to show of the film's rather nice cinematography. These sort of shots in this film are the reason why it is, so far, the film with the most number of location posts on the blog. You can just make out the Kimberley Hotel on the right, its the building with the angled windows.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui

There are a fair number of nice shots interspersed in the dialogue and as the two are walking back from Hankow Road, just before they head over to Hong Kong Island, we get this brief glimpse of the Cameron centre that stands on the corner of Cameron Road and Chatham Road South.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Portland Street, Mongkok

Back, very quickly, to Portland Street as the two are walking down Hankow Road they look up (or at least the camera does) and they are walking under a sign that is in fact several miles back to the north. This sauna place is actually in the Wai Wah Commercial Building at 109 Portland Street. In fact, in the background you can see the illuminated half globe that sits on top of the Langham Office Tower in Mongkok.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Hankow Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

A quick leap from Market Street and the pair are already back in Tsim Sha Tsui walking down Hankow Road. Their Kowloon side walk is beginning to look almost as epic as their HK side one.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Market Street, Yau Ma Tei

Market Street is the small street that runs along the southern wall of the Yau Ma Tei Tin Hau Temple and public square. A long time ago, most likely when Temple Street carried on uninterrupted past the front of the temple, Market Street also continued on through to join Nathan Road. These days the section between Temple Street and Nathan Road is now pedestrianised and that is the next location for our intrepid explorers (to get here they went from Woosung Street to Ashley Road and then all the way back up here again).

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Ashley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

After their spicy crab they walk away and pop out at the top of Ashley Road. Not a very often featured little side road in Hong Kong packed full of restaurants and bars, but I guess there is always a first time for everything. Actually, I had a kebab here not so long ago and I don't think there has been much change since 2015.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Woosung Street, Yau Ma Tei

They decide to go and grab something to eat and Josh recommends a restaurant he likes. It turns out it is one of the spicy crab joints around the Temple Street night market. The one they go to though is actually on the next street over on Woosung Street at the junction with Nanking Street. The address is 103 Woosung Street.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei

After their brief walk down the Avenue of Stars, the pair head over to Temple Street where Ruby finds some knock offs of her toy designs being sold.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - The Avenue of Stars, Tsim Sha Tsui

I guess the filming along here took place not long before the place closed down for three years for a revamp. All the tacky stuff has gone to make way for marginally less tacky stuff and poor Bruce is now, along with Anita Mui, relegated to being an ornament in the Starbucks outdoor eating area.

Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Horizonte Lounge, Kowloon

I've had a bit of a brain fart and realised that this earlier shot over Yaumatei was taken at the very same spot where a later bar scene was filmed. In the second part of the film, when Josh and Ruby meet up again, Josh invites her for a drink at a rooftop bar and this was the Horizonte Lounge at the top of Hotel Madera.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Jordan Road, Yau Ma Tei

Following on from this post, I suspect these shots were all done at the same time because if you turn the camera to the left at the junction of Nathan and Jordan Roads, you will get the view down Jordan Road that appears below.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Chungking Mansions, Tsim Sha Tsui

Ruby has ordered a suit for her fiance and Josh offers to accompany her to pick it up. The location turns out to be Chungking Mansions.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Central Ferry Piers, Hong Kong

The Star ferry plays a role in the second part of the film because it is where Josh and Ruby bump into each other again and strike up their friendship from the previous year. The sequence starts off with an establishing shot of the main pier building before moving around the area as Josh makes his way to the ferry.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - View over to Hong Kong Island

The last shot used in the first chapter of the film is another time-lapse, this time of a view from Tsim Sha Tsui across to Hong Kong Island. Probably a scene familiar with anyone who has stuck around for the evening harbour lights show.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Nathan Road, Kowloon

This brief shot was taken from the junction of Nathan and Jordan Roads, looking north up Nathan Road. You can just make out the old Tai Lin sign on the facade of the building on the right (just to the right of the pink/yellow sign for the Kum Loong Hotel). I'm not sure if any of these large street signs exist anymore?

Anyway, the area also crops up in a later part of the film, but seen from a different angle or two. The second image is taken from more or less the same area but from the vantage point of the pavement, and the lower image is from the next block down but looking back up Nathan Road from the other direction, so it includes many of the same business signs.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Portland Street, Mongkok

This brightly lit spot is actually on Portland Street where it intersects with Changsha Street. I imagine fair amount of protection money was paid to film here because it is basically gangster central (the triads run all the karaoke bars here).

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Mongkok Road, Kowloon

A familiar sight to anyone that followed my Strangers/White Dragon posts last year. They should be able to recognise the pedestrian walkway that sits above Mongkok Road. This looks like it was shot from the top of the Fa Yuen Street exit (which you can see the bottom of on the lower right).