The Magic Crystal - Andy Lau (1986) - 13 Wiltshire Road, Kowloon Tsai

I can't vouch for the interior or backyard scenes, although I'm fairly confident it is the same place, but the exterior street shots for Andy's house were done at 13 Wiltshire Road in Kowloon Tsai. In this case the plot markers at the front wall were very helpful - NKIL 4106 and 4107 are just about visible between the two doors in the screencaps. Sadly, like many older houses (many dating from the early 1950s) in this estate, this one was redeveloped along with its neighbour (#11) into the aesthetically underwhelming but expensive "Wiltshire Place" - a cluster of 4 townhouses - circa 1998. I've included a couple of images of the backyard, just in case it is indeed the same place. Sadly I don't have a historical image of the property, but Gwulo does have an image of the street from 1967 courtesy of Mike Cussans.

Cynthia is running towards Oxford Road. The wall in the background hasn't changed.

The Magic Crystal - Andy Lau (1986) - Oxford Road, Kowloon Tsai

The location of the school attended by Andy's nephew, Ban Ban, is located at the junction of Oxford Road and Ho Tung Road in Kowloon Tsai. I first tried finding this place according to the plot marker that you can see in the top image. However, it looks as though this plot number (NKIL 4539) was discontinued - most likely the plot was divided up, or joined with another, and assigned a new number. In the end I was guided by the distant image of Lion Rock in the background of image 2. 

The building on the site was/is a real school, although you don't really get to see much of it on film. We can see more of the brown building next door, which is the famous Maryknoll Convent School. I found out a few years ago that Terry McQueen (daughter of Steve McQueen and Neile Adams) attended that school whilst her dad was in Hong Kong filming The Sand Pebbles in 1966.

Royal Warriors - Michelle Yeoh (1986) - College Road, Kowloon Tsai

The car chase continues, this time up, and down, College Road in Kowloon Tsai. It's called College Road because La Salle College used to be located at the southern end of the road. In the top image we are looking south, down College Road from its junction with Nga Tsin Wai Road.

In these next two images, we're seeing the same junction but the camera has rotated left.and is filming Michael's car turning onto College Road from Nga Tsin Wai Road

The next shot shows the car chase as it continues down College Road. And finally, the last image shows the reverse view looking backup the road.

Police Story 2 - Jackie Chan (1988) - Oxford Road, Kowloon Tsai

This is the location where May is kidnapped by the bomb gang as she leaves the supermarket with her aunt.There's still a supermarket here but it's gone a bit upscale now and been turned into a "Jasons"(still owned by Jardines who also own Wellcome). The house in the background behind the shop has since been redeveloped into an apartment block, but looking back the other way (second image) it's pretty much the same view.

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.

Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Kai Tak Approach

After a few aerial shots, supposedly the view from Wang Yu's plane, the next sequence shows his plane landing at kai Tak. The sequence was shot from Checkerboard Hill in Kowloon Tsai - or at least the east side of it as you can see by the presence of some of the hilltop in the first couple of images.

Isabella - Isabella Leong (2006) - Derby Road, Kowloon Tsai

Another of the Hong Kong-shot scenes from this film occurs at the end as Yan gives Ma a lift to his court date on the back of her scooter. The scene starts on Derby Road with "Scholar's Lodge" on the right, and the old, art-deco wall of #4 Derby Road on the left. After a edit, the scooter then appears not too far away on Chester Road in front of #8 (on the east side of the square) and as they round the crner we know see the other side of #4 Derby Road with scaffolding over it. Given that #4 has been empty for many years and currently has no windows (this is Stage 1 of the tried-and-tested developers' method of demolition - remove all the windows so that Mother Nature renders the building unstable and less likely to attract the attention of the local Antiquities and Monuments Office), it looks like the film maker may have inadvertantly filmed the moment that the windows were all being removed.

Derby Road

Chester Road

Chester Road again with #4 Derby Road back left

Anti-Corruption - Bill Lake (1975) - 16 Durham Road, Kowloon Tsai

When Taff is being given his lesson on the true nature of life in the HK Police Force, he is taken by his corrupt Sergeant to watch a surreptitious money drop off outside Kobert's house. Kobert's wife leaves the property to walk the dog and picks up a bag that has been left by the dodgy man walking in front of her. She then heads back home. This all goes on whilst Taff and co are watching from a car nearby.

In an amazing bit of good fortune, I was able to stumble across the house that was used in the film because, against all odds, it is still around. The address is 16 Durham Road in the Kowloon Tsai part of Kowloon Tong - that's the esatet to the east of Waterloo Road that was developed from the late forties and early fifties. The house in question was completed in 1955 and although it has had a bit of external repainting done, the owners don't appear to have bothered with the garden wall. At last not in the past 46 year since the film was made.

Challenge of the Tiger - Bruce Le (1982) - Oxford Road, Kowloon Tsai

No sooner have the dynamic duo been picked up at the airport and their enemies are onto them already and try to attack them in Kowloon Tong. It's Kowloon Tsai - the area of Kowloon Tong on eastern side of Waterloo Road. The car pulls out of Durham Road and turns left onto Oxford road where it is stopped by the baddies. All hell breaks loose as ol' Bruce does his stuff and dispatches them in true fake Bruce Lee style.

Oxford Road with Durham Road on the right 

Oxford Road looking north 

In the background is the Kowloon Tsai electricity substation

The last two pictures show #16 Durham Road which sits on the corner with Oxford Road with odd windows along its external walls (they're still there) and red gates, and the lower picture shows the house next door which is #28 Oxford Road - since redeveloped into a modern house.