Showing posts with label Lockhart Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lockhart Road. Show all posts
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Hacker - Callan McAuliffe (2016) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
One of the places we see from the taxi as the group are driven to their hotel is a quick glimpse down Lockhart Road from the vantage point of the Canal Road Flyover.
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Hafen der Düfte - Veronica Ferres (2013) - Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay
The next location shot takes us to Lockhart Road, right by the junction with Cannon Street. This is the scene where Victoria goes along to Edward's nightclub - the Dynasty Club.
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Fu Kee Metals and Plumbing Engineering, Lockhart Road
We've already seen the shop where Loy works, now we can locate the bathroom shop where Oi Lin works for her Uncle and Aunt. Her uncle, by the way, is played by Lam Wai who was "Raging Bull" in Royal Warriors. Again, this was a real business that was taken over for the purpose of filming. It looks as though the company is still around, but not at this location. A quick search for Fu Kee pulls up a shop in Tsuen Wan with the same signage, so it looks like Lockhart Road rents may have got the better of them - just as it is getting the better of everyone else in Hong Kong these days. Anyway, for posterity, the address in the film was 368 Lockhart Road, the ground floor of the Pak Ling Building. The company has a website here: https://fukeehk.com/.
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Spitfire - Lance Henriksen (1995) - Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay
In another of those remarkable feats of human achievement, running away from the bad guys up a street in Aberdeen leads the pair to Lockhart Road in Wanchai! Specifically where it intersects with Percival Street. The green neon shop (first image) was on the ground floor of the Po Hon Building. In the second and third images you can see the Percival Street-facade of Causeway Bay Plaza.
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Flight to Hong Kong - Rory Calhoun (1956) - International Funeral Parlour, Lockhart Road
I'm not sure if the funeral parlour was officially on Lockhart Road or Fenwick Street because it appears the main entrance was bang on the NW corner of the junction. I did add this screengrab to Gwulo a while back and some helpful comments have been added to the Gwulo page. The parlour was later replaced by the East Town Theatre and now the East Town Building.
The film crew also shot some scenery of Lockhart Road as well by just turning the camera a little to the right at the junction. The view down Lockhart Road shows a section of the funeral parlour wall on the left before the columns of the tenements start. This was used for a back projected scene whereby Mama Lin (Soo Yong) reports someone following her to a traffic pagoda policeman (played by James Hong!).
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Asia-Pol Secret Service - Wang Yu (1966) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
As Wang Yu follows the baddies car away from Kellet Island the cars can be seen turning left onto Lockhart Road at the intersection with Canal Road. How do I know this is Canal Road? If you look at the right hand side of the later images you can see the red squared wall of the B.A.T factory building. Looking at aerial photos it is quite clear that the B.A.T building had a rear annex that was connected to the main building via what appears to be a walkway. This rear annex occupied the space now filled by Lockhart House on the corner of the plot demarcated by Canal Road, Jaffe Road and Lockhart Road.
Another interesting factoid is that the wikipedia page for the Bowrington Canal states it was covered over in the 1970s when the flyover was constructed, however, the aerial images from 1967 show that the covering of the canal had already been completed by then, and it looks as though it was done already for when this film was made as there appears to be no evidence of the open canal in the first image below. Sadly I can't find any images between 1964 and 1966 for that area to pin down when the covering was done. The 1963 Govt aerial images show an open canal, so it's safe to assume the canal was covered some time between 63 and 66.
Another interesting factoid is that the wikipedia page for the Bowrington Canal states it was covered over in the 1970s when the flyover was constructed, however, the aerial images from 1967 show that the covering of the canal had already been completed by then, and it looks as though it was done already for when this film was made as there appears to be no evidence of the open canal in the first image below. Sadly I can't find any images between 1964 and 1966 for that area to pin down when the covering was done. The 1963 Govt aerial images show an open canal, so it's safe to assume the canal was covered some time between 63 and 66.
Thursday, November 4, 2021
SPL - Donnie Yen (2005) - Luard Road, Wanchai
Part of Inspector Ma's (Donnie Yen) backstory is that he once hit a perp and permanently brain damaged the guy. So we get a flashback of the event that starts with Ma running down Lockhart Road and then turning into Luard Road before dragging the guy out of his car and giving him the fateful punch.
Monday, August 30, 2021
Anti-Corruption - Bill Lake (197) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
Some more street shots whilst the opening credit's preamble describes the state of corruption in the Hong kong police force at the time. The following is the view (looking east) along Lockhart Road between Arsenal and Fenwick Streets. The Pussycat Bar was located on the SW corner of Lockhart and Fenwick Streets where the Empire Hotel now stands.
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
I Come With The Rain - Josh Hartnett (2009) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
As Kline wanders around looking for Shitao he walks down Lockhart Road. This is about half way along the section between Percival Street and Canal Road.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
A couple more establishing shots from this episode, Murder Royal, were taken at the junction of Lockhart and Luard Roads in Wanchai. They pop up in a sort of montage as Evans tramps around the city trying to find out what is going on from his various dubious sources. It seems most of them frequent the bars in the Wanchai red light district.
Conveniently, both of these bars were on opposite sides of the same junction. The Skyroom Bar was located at 88 Lockhart Road, on the south east corner of the junction and the United Bar was located on the opposite corner.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Felicity - Glory Annen (1978) - Neon Bar Signs, Various Locations
I'm a big fan of the neon signs that were once prevalent along Hong Kong's night streets, so here are quite a few from Felicity.
Staying on Fenwick Street for the next image and it's of the An An Topless Club and as you can see next door was Club Mikado. This little stretch of Fenwick Street was also seen on Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon.
Last but not least the last image is from a place that is a little more recent in Hong Kong history although it now appears to have disappeared for good. The Bottoms Up Club was on Hankow Road for many years (although for some reason in The Man with the Golden Gun it was moved to Hanoi Road - I am still not sure if this was in reality or just for the sake of the film. I suspect the latter). A few years ago the club moved over to Wanchai (coincidentally, to Fenwick Street) but now appears to have completely disappeared. Its original location, in the basement of a building that stood on the corner of Peking and Hankow Roads, was demolished circa 2014 and a new building, Prince Tower now stands in its place. This new building also has a basement and it's currently occupied by a Starbucks.
Pussy Cat Club was on the corner of Fenwick Street and Lockhart Road. Originally just occupying 34-38 LockHart Road, the club expanded to take over the corner plot as well (so, occupying 34-40 Lockhart Road) as can be seen from this grab from Felicity. This site is now the Empire Hotel.
We saw the Diamond Steakhouse sign quite recently as well, so you should now know it was on Lockhart Road on the other side of the Fenwick Street junction (in fact, in that link, you can see the arches of the Pussy Cat Club on the right of the third image).
Club Subway was at 53-55 Lockhart Road. I think that Subway occupied the basement of the same premises as Club Highway. It would make sense given the names of each. We last saw Club Highway during my Spearhead posts.
Staying on Fenwick Street for the next image and it's of the An An Topless Club and as you can see next door was Club Mikado. This little stretch of Fenwick Street was also seen on Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon.
Last but not least the last image is from a place that is a little more recent in Hong Kong history although it now appears to have disappeared for good. The Bottoms Up Club was on Hankow Road for many years (although for some reason in The Man with the Golden Gun it was moved to Hanoi Road - I am still not sure if this was in reality or just for the sake of the film. I suspect the latter). A few years ago the club moved over to Wanchai (coincidentally, to Fenwick Street) but now appears to have completely disappeared. Its original location, in the basement of a building that stood on the corner of Peking and Hankow Roads, was demolished circa 2014 and a new building, Prince Tower now stands in its place. This new building also has a basement and it's currently occupied by a Starbucks.
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Sunday, April 7, 2019
Black Cobra Woman - Laura Gemser (1976) - Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay
Here's an interesting look at what used to be at the very end of Lockhart Road where it meets East Point Road. This is where Eva is driving Gerri home, and she stops and chucks away her plane ticket.
The first image is looking back up along Lockhart Road from the end. That whole block of buildings on the right hand side is still there. The next image shows them stopping outside the "Excelsior Shopping Centre" which was in the Chee On Building, which is still there today. The next shot shows the camera looking up East Point Road towards the junction with Yee Wo Street.
The first image is looking back up along Lockhart Road from the end. That whole block of buildings on the right hand side is still there. The next image shows them stopping outside the "Excelsior Shopping Centre" which was in the Chee On Building, which is still there today. The next shot shows the camera looking up East Point Road towards the junction with Yee Wo Street.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Black Cobra Woman - Laura Gemser (1976) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
Once in her new car, Eva (that's the character's name) takes it for a spin and the next shot was taken looking along Lockhart Road at the junction with Fenwick Street. There are some familiar bar and restaurant names here including the Diamond Steakhouse, Neptune and Magpie bars, and I believe the large one on the corner of Fenwick Street must be the Back Door Club. The one in the last image with the curves above the columns was the Pussy Cat Bar. All these old buildings have been redeveloped.
We also see the same area a bit later in the film but this time from the pavement as Eva and her new found friend are walking around and hanging out.
Sunday, March 17, 2019
Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Under Bridge Spicy Crab, Wanchai
At the start of Episode 7, the story moves to Mr Xo (played by Kenneth Tsang) who is the favourite candidate for the upcoming Chief Executive "election". Actually, the predetermined nature of the election is even hinted at by one of the characters later in the episode - so much like the real election charade that is undertaken in the real Hong Kong.
We see him eating dinner with his family at a place called Under Bridge Spicy Crab. It's a real place and looks like it has 3 closely clustered premises around Canal Road in Wanchai. The one on film is the one at 421-425 Lockhart Road.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
The bar that the gents decide to go and get a drink in is a real bar called Bar 109, located at 109 Lockhart Road. It's on the ground floor of one of the sole remaining shophouse buildings along this road.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
Not a major location but a quick shot showing off some of the LED lighting in Hong Kong. These particular signs are along Lockhart Road in Wanchai. I'm going to hazard a guess that the "Hotel Beverly" is of the hourly room type.
Monday, June 18, 2018
Spearhead in Hong Kong - Stafford Gordon (1981) - Lockhart Road, Wanchai
The obligatory "squaddies out on the town" sequence takes place along LockHart Road (where else?) as a group head to Club Highway. It was a bit hard tracking down the location of this place for 1981 because it moved to the 128 Building in later years. However, this shot looks as though it was taken at the club's previous address: 53-55 Lockhart Road. This is the current location of the Spa Centre.
The lowest image shows a view further down the road to the Neptune Club and Bar when it was still at 75-79 Lockhart Road.
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon - Sonny Chiba (1977) - Fenwick Street, Wanchai
A fair amount of action goes on around Fenwick Street. It's the location of the night club from where Golgo's crimelord-target runs his network. There are some nice shots showing the various neon signs for the clubs and topless bars that were once more prolific. The location can be identified by the fact that we can see the "Back Door Club" in the background. As previously discovered, this was located at 42-50 Lockhart Road - on the corner of Lockhart Road and Fenwick Street.
There is also this shot taken at the junction of Lockhart and Fenwick looking south. The columns in the picture belonged to a building that stood on where the Empire Hotel now stands.
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