Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - 6 Fei Ngo Shan Road, Kowloon Peak

The baddies hideout is represented by the exterior of a property that used to stand at 6 Fei Ngo Shan Road. I thought this may have been a model until I came across it recently in Karate from Shaolin Temple. This film shows it from more or less the same angle as that film, but in much better picture quality. Sadly, this version of the property underwent some renovations in the 1990s/00s and then was completely demolished and replaced quite recently, so sadly is no more.

Anyway, this is where the gang and their boss are based and serves as the location for the rooftop finale as the girls fight off the gangsters from a studio-built replica of the roof.

Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - Shaw Movietown Main Gates

Any self respecting Shaw fan will recognise these gates immediately. They're the main gates at the front of the old Movietown complex and are as iconic as the curved canopy of Shaw House. This shot was obviously taken from the driveway of Shaw House. As far as I know the gates are still installed in the same place but obviously everything is still up in the air as to what will become of the site. Go see them while you still can. Or perhaps some rich fan can buy them and restore them for posterity?

In this scene we are supposed to be at the main gates of the gang leader's house.

Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - Clearwater Bay Road, Sai Kung

In a scene following the discovery of the statuette contains the microfilm, the main characters head back into town to inform the police. Their car is stopped at a junction between two roads.

This scene was filmed at the junction between Clearwater Bay Road and Hiram's Highway. This area now has multiple lanes criss-crossing each other but, as you can see, back in the mid-60s (and later) it was a simple T junction with Clearwater Bay Road heading off to the left and Hiram's Highway curving down the slope towards Sai Kung. It looks like there was a roundabout here but that was just a grass island separating the up and downhill lanes of Hiram's Highway.

Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - Port Shelter, Sai Kung

Following a big fracas on the Star Ferry (a studio set) as the baddies attempt to steal a statuette they believe contains the professor's microfilm, the statuette is tossed over board and Lee and Zhang leap in after it. 

The next day they can be seen drying off aboard a fishing junk out in Port Shelter. Their exact location is on the north side of Sharp Island next to where the public pier is now located.

Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - Shaw House, Clearwater Bay

A familiar sight to any Shaw fan worth their salt is the front of the old Shaw House building with its curved concrete canopy. Shaw House has often stood in for other locations in a variety of Shaw productions and co-productions (examples: The Million Eyes of Sumuru, Shatter) and in this movie it serves as the front entrance for the Silver Dice Night Club where the gang are stationed and where Lee (Cheng Pei-pei) is offered a job.

Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - Sea Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui

Old readers may remember this post from several years ago that described the "Sea Terminal" in Tsim Sha Tsui - a sort of temporary (from 1962 to circa 1969) point of disembarkation for ship passengers prior to Ocean Terminal being completed. In Operation Lipstick this is the location where Lo Tin (King Pai-chien), the trusted associate of Dr Au, is supposedly about to trade the doctor's secrets but has his wallet lifted by Chan Er (Lee Kwan) just prior to the handover.

Gwulo has a very good image of the Sea Terminal here showing you how it looked. The location has now been subsumed into the Royal Pacific Hotel and Towers.

Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - Tai Mo Shan Road, Tsuen Wan

In case you weren't convinced that the previous location was Route Twisk, the next shot of the kidnap truck shows it turning off Route Twisk and up Tai Mo Shan Road. You can barely make out the words of the road sign but this junction looks quite similar even today despite all the extra tree and vegetation growth covering the hillside. Here's a GoogleEarth comparison.

Operation Lipstick - Cheng Pei-pei (1967) - Route Twisk, Tsuen Wan

The next movie comes courtesy of Celestial's Youtube channel (@ShawBrosCinema) which has put up several videos of their remastered Shaw Bros collection that I assume have not yet been picked up  by anyone for license/release. A big shout out to Will Kouf of SilverEmulsion.com who made me aware of the channel via his Bluesky account.

The film is a comedy starring Cheng Pei-pei (RIP) as a night club singer who is embroiled into James Bond type intrigue as a gang kidnaps a a scientist in an attempt to get hold of the plans of his ground breaking science invention.

The opening exterior shots of this movie involve the doctor's car being hijacked despite its police outrider escort. These scenes were all shot along Route Twisk - the former military road that snakes across the west and north slopes of Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong's highest mountain. The modern views of these sections of the road are so covered in trees that it was quite hard to find the exact locations, so you'll just have to take my word for it.