The Confidence Man JP: The Movie - Masami Nagasawa (2019) - Ngam Tau Sha, Sai Kung

The gang's target is a reclusive billionaire business woman who lives in a large mansion somewhere on the coast. It turns out that her mansion is the one previously seen in Man of Tai Chi. This property (or properties, as there are two located here) is located on a bit of land that was previously used for target practice by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. I was recently told by a Sai Kung-based friend that the owner of one of these properties just sold it for several hundred million HK dollars.

Man of Tai Chi - Keanu Reeves (2013) - Ngam Tau Sha, Sai Kung

Reeves' mansion in the film, a place where Karen Mok spends an inordinate amount of time spying on him, was supposedly on some nondescript part of the Hong Kong coast. The actual scenes of the estate look to have been filmed elsewhere but the external shots were all done over in Sai Kung by Little Palm Beach, on a small promontory called Ngam Tau Sha. I believe older readers who were in Hong Kong before the handover may recall it was also informally called "Target Island" for a while because the airforce and navy would use it for target practice. Large wooden bulls-eye targets were erected on the flat part of the land and then subsequently bombed and strafed with gun fire. In reality, it now houses a couple of private residences and a sailing club.