On their way to raid Wong Po's drug house, the police team drive along the Kwun Tong Bypass. In the background of the top image is the Kowloon Flour Mills (九龍麵粉廠). There is a good outline of the place over on Hugh Farmer's Industrial History of Hong Kong website. However, film fans may be interested to know that the building served as a template for some of the CGI buildings created for Transformers: Age of Extinction. The building with "Elite"written on the front has since been replaced.
Showing posts with label Kwun Tong Bypass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kwun Tong Bypass. Show all posts
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Knock Off - Jean Claude Van Damme (1997) - Kwun Tong Bypass, Kwun Tong
Kwun Tong seems to have been one of the favoured places for filming this movie, what with the supermarket crash scene, the wistful wanderings by the breakwaters and now this shot taken along the Kwun Tong Bypass - almost immediately above the area where the piers are.
It's a brief shot but it is a great example of how this part of New Kowloon has changed since the airport moved its operations over to Chek Lap Kok.
The building in the lower picture is the Kowloon Godown which is still around, but have a look at the skyline behind. It's now completely dominated by the new high rises springing up in place of old factories on the old Kowloon Bay industrial area. You can certainly no longer see Lion Rock as clearly as you could back in 1997.
Monday, September 28, 2015
Knock Off - Jean Claude Van Damme (1997) - Kowloon Bay Breakwater, Kowloon Bay
As JCVD goes off soul-searching, he decides to wander down to the breakwaters that sit across Kowloon Bay near to Kai Tak airport runway. I'm quite certain that at least one of the following screen caps is actually the previously mentioned Todd Senofonte, Van Damme's long-term stunt double. Anyway, the second shot shows the uprights of the Kwun Tong Bypass that runs along the waterfront along Kowloon Bay and Kwun Tong.
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