Showing posts with label Junction Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Junction Road. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2022

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Lok Fu Park, Kowloon Tsai

It seems like I have been doing this film for ages because I started it when I was still in the UK back in April. 51 location posts makes it the highest number of posts for a single film in all the years I've been doing this blog (and there was a bunch I haven't been able to identify).

Anyway, following the defeat of the bad guys on the boat, the ending of the film sees the two spies meeting near the summit of Checkboard Hill. The intial shot shows the steep hillside of the Chinese Christian Cemetery on the opposite side of Junction Road. In the third image you can see the former radar installation that was located on the hill behind Wang Hsieh's head. It looks like they were filmed a little way down the slope from the circular turnaround (same place seen here) at the top of Fu On Street. The area is now part of Lok Fu park. The final image shows the buildings clustered around the layby next to the unction between Heng Lam Street and Junction Road looking much the same now as it did then. The only difference is the housing blocks between the actors and the background have all been redeveloped when the Lok Fu Estate was rebuilt.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

The Black Dragon's Revenge - Ronnie Van Clief (1975) - Junction Road, Lok Fu

After their ambush at Lok Fu Park, the guys go to try and find the journalist who they were supposed to be meeting, only to find out he was murdered that morning. The scene involves a car driving along Junction Road in order to reach the guys house. The camera is placed at or close to the junction with Inverness Road, opposite the Chinese Christian Cemetery, and films the car driving from south to north. Interesting to note is the old ornamental archway that formed the old entrance to the cemetery. You can also see the old chapel inside the grounds. Sadly, the rather picturesque piece of Junction Road has been replaced by a rather bland flat building frontage that is marked on maps as the "ossuarium". This location is just down the slope from the previous Lok Fu Park location, so no doubt filmed around the same time.