Showing posts with label Ma Tau Chung Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ma Tau Chung Road. Show all posts

Friday, May 5, 2023

Friday, June 21, 2019

Banzaï - Coluche (1983) - Kowloon City, Kowloon

The bombing sequence (actually, the plane is just opening its cargo doors and dropping all its luggage) is edited so that footage of planes landing at Kai Tak is cut into shots of people on the streets looking up and being showered with suitcases. The landing shots include a bunch of quick edits of planes flying over Kowloon City area which I have been able to identify below.

The curvy building used to be on the corner of Lung Kong Road
(part of the non-curved section remains)
Looking towards Hau Wong Road from Nga Tsin Wai Road
(before the Kowloon City Govt Complex was built)
Corner of Prince Edward Road and Lung Kong Road
Nga Tsin Wai Road between Nam Kok and Nga Tsin Long Roads
Flying over Ma Tau Chung Road

Friday, May 5, 2017

Jason King (TV Series) - Peter Wyngarde (1972) - Ma Tau Chung Road, Kowloon City

Here's a really empty view up the Ma Tau Chung Road next to Kai Tak airport. The bottom left hand corner shows the Sheng Kung Hui Holy Trinity Church with its "Chinese Renaissance" architecture. Actually, to be fair the only real change to this view is the proliferation of high buildings in the background, this section of the road remains relatively unchanged. Even in the zoom in, we are given a close up of what was once a restaurant called (I think?) the 百好酒樓 (Cantonese: Baak Ho Jau Lau) or "Very Good Restaurant". This building also seems to still be around (at least according to Streetview), although I'm not sure it is a restaurant anymore. You can see it in the Streetview image at the bottom.