No culpes al karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas - Verónica Echegui (2016) - Gloucester Road, Wanchai

The last few posts are just general shots around the area. This one is of the pedestrian walkway across Gloucester Road where it intersects with O'Brien Road. A familiar walk for anyone who had to make the traipse to the Immigration Department when it was still based here (we've all had to make that walk on multiple occasions as immigrants into Hong Kong).

Anak - Vilma Santos (2000) - O'Brien Road, Wanchai

Watching the film, I thought this next shot was supposed to be the view from Josie's window in the apartment where she is employed, but perhaps it was just a transitional shot for the sequence where her employers callously cancel her holiday, take her passport and then lock her in their apartment while they go off on their own holiday.

Anyway, this image shows the view looking south along Thomson Road/O'Brien Road and so was most definitely captured from the walkway/footbridge above Wanchai MTR station. We've been in this area a couple of times in the last few months (Crossing Hennessy, Hafen der Düfte).

This lower image is from the opening sequence and shows a view along the footbridge but next to where it crosses Gloucester Road.

Anak - Vilma Santos (2000) - Gloucester Road, Wanchai

Here's a nice image of the section of Gloucester Road between O'Brien Road and Stewart Road. The low, white building on the left was the former Hong Kong Exhibition Centre that was knocked down about 10 years ago and replaced by the funky looking St Regis Hotel. The China Resources Building behind it also looks far more funky these days with an complete external renovation using copious amounts of glass. The pillars on the left are the ground floor of Central Plaza and this shot was captured from the footbridge at the end of O'Brien Road (this one).

Crossing Hennessy - Jacky Cheung (2010) - Gloucester Road Pedestrian Bridge, Wanchai

Another brief transition shot shows the large pedestrian bridge that connects the two sides of Gloucester Road. Anyone who has spent any length of time in Hong Kong will probably have had to use this bridge as it used to connect Wanchai MTR station (above O'Brien Road) with what was the Immigration Department HQ (since moved to Tseung Kwan O though, I think).

Three Businessmen - Miguel Sandoval (1998) - O'Brien Road Pedestrian Bridge, Wanchai

After disembarking the ferry, the next shot of the (currently two) businessmen appears to be the pedestrian walkway that connects Wanchai MTR station with Immigration Tower on the north side of Gloucester Road. The captures below show the pair walking south towards the MTR at, what appears to be, the section between Jaffe Road and Lockhart Road.

Cracker: White Ghost - Robbie Coltrane (1996) - Gloucester Road Footbridge, Wanchai

Anyone who has spent a long enough time in HK (i.e. had to apply for a visa and/or ID card) will probably have made the walk across this next location. It's the pedestrian footbridge that connects Wanchai MTR/O'Brien Road with Immigration Tower on Gloucester Road. Our friend Dennis Philby heads over there to try and convince the Immigration officer that he has legitimately married his girlfriend and wants a passport for her.