The Lady Professional - Lily Ho Li-li (1971) - Kai Tak Amusement Park, Kowloon

In The Lady Professional Lily Ho stars as Ge Tian-li, a cafe owner who is coerced into a contract kill. It turns out later that Tian-li took revenge on the man that killed her father but was recognised by someone (Chang Pei-shan) and he has been blackmailing her ever since. He finally takes it further and uses his leverage to convince her to kill again. The target is a recently released criminal (Chan Shen) who is about to turn key witness in a court case against a criminal gold smuggling syndicate involving a high level businessman.

It looks as though some of the scenes were filmed in Japan - specifically a mid-film sequence when Tian-li follows Shi to a bowling alley. The scenery, as she drives up the hill to "Hotel Paradise", is not Hong Kong and production notes mention Japan, but not exactly where. The same hotel building and its exterior spiral staircase are also seen in other brief scenes. If anyone knows the location, please feel free to share.

The film starts with what we later find out is Tian-li's first kill, where she takes out her target on a rollercoaster using a specially adapted makeup compact. The sequence was filmed at the former Kai Tak Amusement Park in San Po Kong. The old terraces that formed the park are still there but are now part of the Choi Hung Road Playground. Old readers may recall the park appeared on the blog many years ago as part of my Sunset deep dive (one of the first local films I ever covered on the previous version of the blog in 2012).
 

Sunset - Paul Chin Pei (1971) - Kai Tak Amusement Park, Choi Hung

Just when I think I have done all I can with a film, up pops up a stumper that has been solved by consulting an excellent old HK Photography book called "Early Kowloon" by Cheng Po Hung. Sunset features a section when the two protagonists spend some time at an amusement park.

Now, I know of several amusement parks that HK used to have such as Lai Yuen (in Lai Chi Kok), Luna Park on HK island but none of my known sites seemed to fit the photos above. Anyway, I found an old photo of Kai Tak Amusement Park of Cheng Po Hung's book and it looks to be a match (same ferris wheel, monorail etc) and can only think it is this one that we can see on film.

If you haven't heard of this place before it's not surprising because it was only open between 1965 and 1982 after which it was demolished and the site was redeveloped into the modern day Choi Hung Park/Choi Hung Road Playground.