Ballad of a Small Player - Colin Farrell (2025) - Pak Nai, Tuen Mun

Following the fire festivities at the temple, the pair head to a nearby beach and sit on a wooden bench in the middle of what looks like mud flats. When Doyle wakes up in the morning, Dao-ming has disappeared and written a number code on his hand.  This scene was in fact filmed back in Hong Kong. This is the view from the low-tide mud flats in front of Pak Nai looking towards the Shekou peninsula in Shenzhen. It's not far from the so-called "Pak Nai Sky Mirror" near Ap Tsai Hang.

Spearhead in Hong Kong - Stafford Gordon (1981) - Pak Nai, Yuen Long

In the second of only two locations from the fourth episode, The Macau Connection, (the first location being Lau Fau Shan) Sgt. Bilinski is kidnapped by the snakeheads because he won't overlook his soldierly duties and a big search is undertaken by the army and local police force. He turns up later in the episode unconscious and on a beach somewhere. Actually, the beach location is not that far away - it's just down the coast in Pak Nai - still within the boundaries of Yuen Long District though, despite its proximity to Tuen Mun.