My Wife is a Gangster 3 - Shu Qi (2006) - Grandview Terrace, Siu Lam

The triad boss, played by Ti Lung, has a rather palatial mansion up in the hills in the New Territories. The building they used is part of the rather opulant Grandview Terrace - a luxury estate with large spacious mansions within. The address of the property seen on film is 1003 Kwun Fung Street. I have no idea who lives in this property, but let's just say you would need to be pretty rich to live up here, even by Hong Kong standards. The establishing shot begins with a view from the house's rather expansive terrace, looking down onto the sea between here and Lantau Island in the distance. The structure in the first image is the Hong Kong Observatory Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Station.

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - 180 Nam Shan San Tsuen Road, Sai Kung

Here's one that I should have done years ago but I only recently realised it was a location I already knew about. I uploaded the Yellowthread Street series to Youtube a while back (see here) and noticed that one episode, The Red Pole, had been blocked due to music copyright. Anyway, after a rewatch (and edit) I realised that the house where the final attack by the triad takes place is a house we have come across a couple of times on the blog before. It's the large Spanish villa that was seen in both Forced Vengeance, where it is the house of Josh's employer, and in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story where it stands in for 41 Cumberland Road.

In this episode of Yellowthread Street, we see a bit more of the interior, especially the downstairs, compared to the exterior.

If you click through on the Forced Vengeance post you'll notice some interesting comments. One of which appears to be from the current owner/occupier of the house who mentions the swimming pool (under construction during the filming of Forced Vengeance) has been turned into a fish pond. However, I have no idea who lived there when all this stuff was filmed. Perhaps someone related to Salon Films?

The Taxi Driver - David Chiang (1975) - Lion Rock Tunnel Road, Shatin

Chen is out on a date with his girlfriend when he sees To Fat getting into a squabble with another driver. This was filmed on a former layby on the Lion Rock Tunnel Road right next to where World Wide Gardens now stands. The area where the layby was is now taken up by the circular entrance ramp connecting Hung Mui Kuk Road to Lion Rock Tunnel Road. The reason for the layby - and if you are paying attention, the car park on the opposite side of the road - is because this place was, and still is, the main access points for the trail up to Amah rock.

Hong Kong 73 - Yueh Hua (1974) - Castle Peak Hospital, Tuen Mun

Opened in 1961 as Hong Kong's main psychiatric hospital, it replaced the old one on Eastern Street (you will remember it from this) which was repurposed as an outpatient clinic. The hospital is still around on the same site, but has been extensively redeveloped into a much larger facility. The one we see below was quite small. One thing to note though is that despite all the change, the hospital still uses its original engraved name stone with its Chinese name (青山醫院). You can compare the name stone image below with the same one that currently sits outside the main entrance.

Hong Kong 73 - Yueh Hua (1974) - Clearwater Bay Road

Now unable to go to either Stanley, or back to Fanling, the group instead decide to head into Sai Kung Tai Au Mun. This is basically the area where all the Clearwater Bay beaches are located. To get there they have to drive back into Kowloon and get on Clearwater Bay road. The images below show the section where it joins Fei Ngo Shan Road (you can see the signpost for Gilwell's Camp). In the film, they are stopped once again, this time by the police who tell them the road ahead is blocked by a truck.

Hong Kong 73 - Yueh Hua (1974) - Lion Rock Tunnel Road, Shatin

After turning back on their journey to Stanley, the group then head back through the Lion Rock Tunnel towards Fanling. It's here where they are told there is also congestion in that direction as well!

The initial image below shows Lion Rock, but it's a view not many people are familiar with because it's from the Shatin-side of the hills. As the camera zooms out, you can see that we are at the tunnel toll booths. The booths are still marked on Google Maps but were removed circa 2023 when the Govt implemented a fully comprehensive electronic tagging system for vehicles entering/leaving the tunnel. The same system has been applied across Hong Kong which is why you no longer have to stop to pay a toll on the way to/from the airport.

This last image was taken on the Shatin-end of Lion Rock Tunnel Road where it intersected with Tai Po Road. Turn left and you head back to Kowloon, turn right and the road takes you past Shatin. The cars in the backgrpund are on the Tai Po Road, but behind them would be where the KCR rail line ran alongside the road. For modern context, this area is more or less the same one where Lion Rock Tunnel Road ends today, at the junction with Tai Po Road - Tai Wai section, but closer to the "Scenery Court" development. 

The Brain Stealers - Lily Ho Li-li (1968) - Port Shelter, Sai Kung

Jia-wen is trying to woo Chiu-lan and takes her out on a boat for the day whilst they are being watched by the agents from the UN. This scene was shot at the Tai Mong Tsai-end of the harbour.

The Brain Stealers - Lily Ho Li-li (1968) - Shaws Movietown

I seem to have lost count how many times Shaw House has been used as a nightclub in one of its productions. In this film it is called Queen Bee and is supposed to be located in Tokyo. In the film it is owned by Chiu-lan's fiance, Jia-wen (Peter Chen Ho) and is where her brother is kidnapped from.

This isn't the only appearance of Movietown in the film though and a few more shots were used for a variety of scenes. The following ones are when the UN are showing agent 009 (Lin Chih-yung) footage of the scientist's laboratory.

The famous yellow gates (Shaw fans know)

There are also some other lab vicinity scenes later that were also filmed inside Movietown. IN fact, I believe the buildings you see below are ones that have been left intact at the very front of the plot (including the old Shaw House). The first building below was the old colour lab located at the south tip of Movietown.

The Colour Lab

You can see the Colour Lab in the distance

The Yellow Gates

The Lady Professional - Lily Ho Li-li (1971) - Shatin

Once out of prison, Shi is being driven away when a group of killers attack him. Most of this scene was filmed on the new reclamation for Shatin Town. There is the odd glimpse of the old Shatin Floating Restaurant in the background of some shots when it was moored on the river in front of Wo Che Village. The area where the restaurant was berthed is now the Wo Che Estate which makes the location where this sequence was filmed around where the Wo Che and Lek Yuen Estates now stand. In one scene there is a prominent building in the background which can still be seen today. It's the "Siu Tin Toa Home for the Aged" in Sheung Wo Che Village (see bottom image).

This section above was right next to the restaurant (off camera left)

You can see the floating restaurant in the background of both these shots

Siu Tin Toa Home for the Aged with the red paint.

Tragic Hero - Chow Yun Fat (1987) - Green Jade / Tsing Bik Villa, Tuen Mun

As mentioned in my first post, this property is the main reason to include this film. This is Yung's palatial home and is the location of the film's finale as it gets completely obliterated by Chai and Kwok as they exact revenge on Yung and his men for killing all their family in Malacca. You can compare the images to how it looked in the 1960s for Kill a Dragon. As mentioned previously, the property was demolished almost immediately after filming was completed and the site was cleared to make way for the current "Bayview Terrace" residential development.

The old entrance way on Castle Peak Road