Showing posts with label Kowloon City Ferry Pier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kowloon City Ferry Pier. Show all posts

Monday, January 15, 2024

Yellow Emanuelle - Chai Lee (1977) - Kowloon City Ferry Pier, Ma Tau Kok

Emy lives on one of the outlying islands and has to go home. She gets George to drop her off at the ferry pier. In this case Kowloon City Ferry Pier. It's an odd choice for travelling out to the outlying islands given that the last image below tells us the ferry is going to North Point.

In the background of the top image you can see the old Ma Tau Kok public pier with its rudimentary roof and supporting columns. I posted about the same place a few months ago. The whole area is currently undergoing some major redevelopment so I'm not sure how much will be left when it's all finished. (edit: can confirm the old Ma Tau Kok public pier has now completely gone)

The ferry, by the way, is the Man Fook (民福) which was in operation between 1969 - 1999.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Stephen Rea (1995) - Ma Tau Kok Public Pier, Ma Tau Kok

The day Nikos decides to go on land, he and Li catch a sampan to the Ma Tau Kok Public Pier. The pier is located next door to the Kowloon City Ferry Pier which can be seen in the background of the first image.

Monday, December 11, 2017

China Rose - George C. Scott (1983) - Kowloon City Ferry Pier, Kowloon

Crossing the harbour by vehicular ferry was still a common route in the 80's (the only vehicular ferry service now is for dangerous good vehicles barred - for obvious reasons - from using the tunnels). MacGraw and Scott take the ferry from an, as yet, unidentified pier and head over to the Kowloon City Pier at San Ma Tau Street. The key to identifying this location is the gasworks in the background. The gas works are still there on To Kwa Wan Road.