Mr Hercules Against Karate - Alberto Terracina (1973) - Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui

The hotel where the boys are staying is the Empress Hotel on the corner of Mody Road and Chatham Road South. There are a few shots done outside the main entrance and surrounding area throughout the film. What I will say is that the hotel interior was not filmed here.

The images below start with a view of the overhanging signs along Mody Road before pulling out to reveal the front of the hotel and its characteristic crowned 'E' symbol. The last image is from a sequence where the camera pointed at the opposite side of the junction and you can see the empty space (Chatham Road Military Camp) of what would become East TST in the background.

Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Sam Hui (1984) - Mody Road, East TST

One of the aerial views as Kingkong zooms around on his flying machine is one of the East TST section of Mody Road. The pedestrian bridges are still there but the one further away (actually, the one in image 3) has had the slope removed and replaced by a lift instead. That's the same bridge that Jackie Chan watches Wing On Plaza from at the end of Police Story (see the top image in this post).

The same footbridge Jackie uses for surveilling at the end of Police Story

Crime Lords - Wayne Crawford (1991) - Empress Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui

It's only a brief glimpse, but it appears that the hotel the main characters are staying at is the Empress Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. This was shot just a couple of years before the place was torn down and replaced by Empress Plaza (no doubt the landowners felt there was more money to be made in office and retail space as opposed to hotel rooms). You may or may not recall that this was the same hotel seen in Narazumono about thirty years previously. There's also a brief glimpse of Mody Road as LaGrange (Crawford) tries to chase after Russo (Martin Hewitt).

Desperate Mission - Germán Cobos (1965) - Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

The chase continues along Mody Road. The buildings on the left of the first two images were knocked down and replaced by the K11 Masterpiece development. But just beyond is Ocean View Court which is still around (on the corner of Mody and Hanoi). At the end of the scene we can see the Empress Hotel on the right hand side which old readers might remember from Narazumono afew years back. This is now Empress Plaza.

Police Story - Jackie Chan (1985) - Wing On Plaza, Mody Road

Included for completeness as Andi has done an amazing job at going in and taking comparison shots of some of the key scenes in the film's finale. So here is his link.

Incidentally, the pedestran bridge where Ka Kui and May wait for the gangsters to show up is still there and hasn't changed (other than different colour paint), so you can also go up there to repeat the angle that the camera captures of the plaza entrance (top image). This location of course is just a hundred metres or so from these earlier scenes shot in East TST.

Future Hunters - Robert Patrick (1986) - Mody Road, Kowloon

It appears that the pair will be staying at the Holiday Inn Golden Mile because our final location for this film sees the taxi driving across Mody Road from Bristol Avenue, and into the aforementioned hotel. This is where the Hong Kong sojourn ends because the next scene involves Patrick and Bruce Le going to a pagoda to meet Silverfox (Hwang Jang Lee) but those scenes appear to have been shot in Manila.

Godzilla vs. Destroyah - Takuro Tatsumi (1995) - Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Our next post from Godzilla vs. Destroyah shows our reptilian friend shooting laser breath and knocking down buildings on Nathan Road in TST. These images show the view taken from the southern end of Nathan Road where Mody Road joins onto it, so that would place Godzilla stomping around at the southern end of Kowloon Park.

You can see the Yue Hwa sign and the Emperor Watch and Jewellery one a bit further up the road on the left hand side. Interestingly, there appears to be a place called the "Wuthering Heights Pub and Restaurant" on the corner of Mody Road. It's not one I've heard of before but perhaps someone else remembers it.

Narazumono - Ken Takakura (1964) - Empress Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui

Not to be confused with the Empress Hotel that once stood over in Central, this particular one was located on the corner of Mody Road and Chatham Road South in Tsim Sha Tsui. I'm not sure when it was demolished but building records show that the current building on the site, Empress Plaza, was constructed in 1993.

Actually, this is a great sequence in the film from a location standpoint because it shows the old army camp on the opposite side of Chatham Road South, now the location for the History and Science museums as well as all the other development that has become known as East Tsim Sha Tsui. If you look at the first image, it looks as though there was some sort of religious organisation opposite the hotel which would now mark where Mody Road continues on the other side of Chatham Road South.
In the second image above you can see some of the newly reclaimed land that would eventually be turned into Wing On Plaza as well as the TST Shangri-la Hotel.

The next image below shows the view looking north up Chatham Road South and you can quite clearly see the Nissan huts of the army camp as well as the nicely curved facade of Ocean View Court which is still there (it was built in 1958). There's a brief glimpse of the hotel exterior in the lower two images as the camera is positioned on the opposite corner of Mody Road and pans down to street level.

Challenge of the Tiger - Bruce Le (1982) - Shangri-La Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui

Moving on to the next film we have Challenge of the Tiger. Although supposedly an international production the quality is very much stuck in the naff semi-exploitative kung fu film genre of the 70's. Its redeeming features are the various locations and the appearance of our old friend Brad Harris as a bad guy called "Leopard" and Jon Benn in a quick uncredited cameo as a CIA honcho.

The movie starts with the main character, played by Bruce Le (he also wrote and directed the film), fending off a bunch of bad guys outside the Shangri-La Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. Given the number of triad attacks that go on around here the place is quite used to seeing some violence, real and otherwise.

Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel

Looking right along Mody Road, the bridge is still there 

Looking left, Mirror Tower on Right. 

Chatham Rd buildings in the background

Das Mädchen von Hongkong - Joachim Fuchsberger (1973) - Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon

Here is an interesting set of shots for those wondering what Tsim Sha Tsui looked like before the so-called "The Masterpiece" was constructed with the URA's usual scant regard for sympathetic design.

This scene is a follow on from when Fuchsberger is cornered in his friend's office (with the cold storage warehouse in the background that was actually in Kwai Chung!). He escapes from the room and all of a sudden ends up on the Tsim Sha Tsui rooftops.

The cluster of buildings where the chaps are scuttling over the rooftops are the exact buildings that were removed to make way for the redevelopment. Actually, they're looking in reasonable shape in this film but by the time came for demolition they were looking pretty sketchy - but nothing some TLC couldn't have fixed.

The view has changed drastically with additional high rise development now obscuring the signal tower on Blackhead Point (that;s still there thankfully), but there are some familiar buildings to be spotted around in the background including Chung king Mansion, Mirador Mansion, Peninsula Apartments and the Lyton Building. All those nice looking balconied low rises have all been redeveloped. 

Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold - Tamara Dobson (1975) - Lyton Building, Blenheim Avenue

At the start of one of those crazy movie chases that start off in one part of Hong Kong and inexplicably jump to another we find our intrepid agents following a baddie from a hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. Luckily for us the building involved is still around - it's the Lyton Building on Mody Road, but the entrance we are interested in is the side one on Blenheim Avenue.

Our first clue is the image of John Cheung waiting patiently outside with a sign behind him saying 'Chow Bar Kee'. As luck would have it the business as well as the building is still around - this is the Mody House on the southwest corner of the Blenheim/Mody junction, which puts John well and truly in Blenheim Ave.

The next two shots are less helpful despite the Manna Korean restaurant showing us an address on 32B Mody Road. It turns out that the B refers to the fact that this small  business is actually behind number 32 Mody Road, even though its front entrance is on Blenheim Ave.

Not to worry, here is a recent Streetview (captured in 2009 because it was the clearest picture) which shows that the girls were running out of the Lyton Building entrance. The Manna Korean Restaurant was located in the shop with the black front and as you can see the entrance the girls run from has since had some brown tiling put on it.

Of course the clincher though was the next shot which shows our chasee (is that even a word?) running up Blenheim Towards Mody and the junction where several roads meet - Hanoi Rd, Hart Ave, Mody Rd and Blenheim Ave all meet at the odd junction. Look at the background below and you will see the building that used to sit between the meeting point of Hanoi and Hart. We've seen this building before and regular readers may remember it from Bloodsport a while back. Coincidentally, the Bloodsport scene also involved a chase on foot.

Bloodsport - Jean Claude Van Damme (1987) - Junction of Hanoi & Mody Roads, Tsim Sha Tsui

More from the chase, this time just after our last post where JCVD runs down the road, hides behind a car and runs back again (in a northerly direction), the next shot sees him run out of neighbouring Hart Avenue (seen on the right in the screen grab below), to the junction where Hart, Mody and Hanoi all meet up.

Until the redevelopment there was a lovely corner building here (one of several in this area it seems) that housed a shoe shop. Hanoi is on the left and Hart on the right with Mody Road at the bottom of the screen.

If you look up Hanoi on the left, you can just make out the leaves of the previously seen banyan tree. You can see ol' JCVD just at the front of the corner building as he runs past it and stops at the traffic island (see below).

Want to know what sits on that corner plots now? It ain't pretty, trust me...

Yep, there you go, I suspect that perhaps some of the corner building's footprint has been taken up by the need for extra space courtesy of the MTR entrance/exit you can see above, which is why is seems to have even less space now. There are still some relics from prior to the redevelopment, but you have to look up to the far end of Hanoi Road on the left - you'll see that the same buildings still line the road at the far end (it's Carnarvon Road) despite everything else being completely demolished.

Bloodsport - Jean Claude Van Damme (1987) - Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui

Now we have left the confusion of the tram car sequence we move onto another one when the guys set out from their hotel and walk with Victor towards Kowloon Walled City and the venue for the 'Kumite'.

We've already seen some scenes from this sequence because I have already covered the southern end of Nathan Road and Peking Road, and the next part of the scene we see our heroes walking along Mody Road - but this time back towards Nathan Road!! If you ask me Victor is a pretty crap guide and I'm surprised old Frank even made it to the venue in the first place.

To be honest, this was a toughy because the whole area has seen MASSIVE redevelopment since this film was made. The URA took over the place (that's the Urban Redevelopment Authority to you and me) and several surrounding roads to build the K11 mall and the so-called 'Masterpiece' skyscraper that houses the mall in its lower floors.

The sole remnants from 1987 are the Union Travel Company (seen on the sign above JCVD's head) and just far right you can catch a glimpse of the Mody Road electricity substation (that's the bit behind the grey-haired dude on the right). Here is a rough approximation of the same view using Streetview (sub station on the right).