Noble House (Mini series) - Pierce Brosnan (1988) - Starling Inlet, Sha Tau Kok

This location had me stumped several years ago when I first did the Noble House series, however, these days I am a bit more familiar with the out of the way places and have discovered it to be the bridge crossing right next to the stores at the entrance to Luk Keng village. The angle is difficult to reproduce because of the tree coverage along the edge of the road, but if you look at this picture you can see the crossing from the vantage point of the nearby temple.

Given the location, I would expect these scenes to have been filmed at the same time as this one.

The Last Grenade - Stanley Baker (1969) - Starling Inlet, Sha Tau Kok

There is a quick scene of the soldiers making their way along a rural road as they hunt down their quarry. It just so happens that this particular road is Luk Keng Road in the far north east of the territory. In fact the closed area border (a sort of restricted buffer zone between Hong Kong and the true border with China) the runs along this very same road - enter the inlet and you are officially in trouble if you don't have a Closed Area Permit. To obtain a permit you need to be an indigenous villager whose village lies within the Closed Border Area, or you need to be invited by someone who lives there.

I've tried to match the same angle using Streetview. Note that in the top picture the embankment in the background is where the road turns north along the west end of the inlet. You can't see the turn these days due to the increased amount of growth on the side of the road.

The view looking east is a bit more interesting as you can see the headland that makes up the far eastern limit of the inlet. The headland is called Ah Kung Tsui.

Noble House (Mini series) - Pierce Brosnan (1988) - Nam Chung, New Territories

Many thanks to Angus for getting this location that had originally caused me some trouble. This is actually Luk Keng Road way up in the sticks next to Starling Inlet. In the series it is supposed to be rural China as Dunross heads to Beijing to strike a deal with the powers that be.

The village you can see in the background of the first picture is called Nam Chung Yeung Uk and looks pretty much as it did back when the series was made. The relative difficulty of getting to this location means it has escaped the worst of the village house development that has run rampant in more popular parts of the New Territories (I'm sure that will change though). Here is an approximate Streetview.