Bullet for Hire - Simon Yam (1991) - Ma Tau Kok Road, Ma Tau Kok

Han and Shan's next job is to kill a rival gang member, but when Shan goes inside to do the deed, their inside man has been caught and tortured (with a chainsaw!). The location for this sequence was along the far eastern end of Ma Tau Kok Road outside the Newport Centre. Back left is the Ma Tau Kok gas naptha plant.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - P.K. Cafe, 93 Ma Tau Kok Road

Lo is keen to take on Fu as his gun-for-hire and takes him to a local cafe to test him out. He starts trouble by calling a obnoxious female patron a 八婆 (bak por - basically the Cantonese for "bitch") and then leaves Fu to sort out the mess he has just created. Funnily enough, PK (the name of the cafe) is also Cantonese shorthand for 仆街 (puk gaai), which literally means to "fall in the street" but also means "bastard" in Cantonese.

Anyway, it was a real place and its identification is a good example of how weird my memory can be sometimes. The iron window bars rang a bell in my head from years ago when I was looking up a Knock Off location and I remember visiting this location and seeing the same design. Lo-and-behold, this cafe was indeed the same place I remembered. Although it closed down many years ago and has since been renovated into a trendier, modern bar, the shop next door still appears to have the same window grills.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Luk Ming Street, Ma Tau Kok

Just a very short walk from the Freder Centre (the original police station location), in fact directly opposite, is a small estate of 12 tenement blocks built between 1959 - 61. I'm not sure if the estate has a name but each block is separated from the next one by a small street. In this scene when Jonah is on the phone to his sister back in the UK, he is walking down one of these streets - Luk Ming Street. The low red roofed buildings behind him are the Cattle Depot Artists Village buildings.

The next part of the sequence shows him sitting at a cafe at the eastern end of the estate along Ma Tau Kok Road. Just behind Jonah's back is Hok Ling Street.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Kowloon City Road, Ma Tau Kok

Jonah waits for David to come out of the station so he can challenge him and find out who he is. This was filmed walking down Kowloon City Road to the junction with Ma Tau Kok Road to the south. The wall behind Anthony Wong in the last image marks the roof to the entrance to the Kai Tak tunnel (you can see a reverse angle on this old post).