Expired - Ryan Kwanten (2021) - Kam Mong Restaurant, Portland Street

Jack goes out for dinner with April at the Kam Mong Restaurant on Portland Street. Sadly, it looks like this is another one that fell by the wayside and closed due to the Covid restrictions. The space is now occupied by a place called "Fish Villa".

Expired - Ryan Kwanten (2021) - Portland Street, Mongkok

Portland Street is one of the recurring locations in this film. In one scene, Jack is once again following April. In the first images, he is walking past the Tung Nam Lou Hotel on the corner with Pitt Street. The same rough area can be seen in the end scene as Jack is again walking along Portland Street, but this time next to the junction with Hamilton Street. The building on the corner in the last image is the C.P.M.S Yaumatei Church.

City on Fire - Chow Yun Fat (1987) - Portland Street, Mongkok

Before the heist, the gang's boss insists that the group spend the night together incommunicado to prevent any news of their robbery getting out and alerting the police. It turns out that the red/blue sign attached the building says "吉祥", which was a cafe located on the corner of Mongkok Road and Portland Street. So the gang are holed up in one of those corner buildings. The only problem is I haven't been able to determine which one so will have to make an educated guess.

When the pair lookout the the flat opposite at the party going on, the camera pans along the outside and you can see the Portland Street sign. This doesn't match the corner building on the NE corner, so I will assume this is looking instead to the SW corner of the junction. Unfortunately, I can't confirm 100% because that building was replaced by "Bright Way Tower" in 1992. However, assuming I'm correct, this means the gang were holed up in the second floor flat at 320 Portland Street - coincidentally, that flat still has green coloured window frames.

Hard Boiled - Chow Yun Fat (1992) - Portland Street, Mongkok

The beginning of the film also has a montage of various neon shop signs so I thought it might be interesting to feature a few here. The first one is this collection of signs that baffled me until I squinted and saw the sign for the old Rex Theatre in the background of image two. This places us on Portland Street not far from the location of the teahouse shootout scene. The cinema closed in 1996 and I believe the space is currently occupied by the MPM Mall.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Portland Street, Mongkok

Back, very quickly, to Portland Street as the two are walking down Hankow Road they look up (or at least the camera does) and they are walking under a sign that is in fact several miles back to the north. This sauna place is actually in the Wai Wah Commercial Building at 109 Portland Street. In fact, in the background you can see the illuminated half globe that sits on top of the Langham Office Tower in Mongkok.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Portland Street, Mongkok

This brightly lit spot is actually on Portland Street where it intersects with Changsha Street. I imagine fair amount of protection money was paid to film here because it is basically gangster central (the triads run all the karaoke bars here).

I Come With The Rain - Josh Hartnett (2009) - Langham Place Office Tower, Mongkok

Once he has settled in Hong Kong, Kline goes to visit an old police buddy (played by Shawn Yue) whose office is located in a rather swish modern looking police station. Of course, in reality it's not a real police station but is the Langham Place Office Tower on the corner of Portland and Argyle Streets. The building on the left of the top image is the rear of the Mongkok HSBC Office and the pink building to the right is the Far East Consortium Mongkok Building. That is the view looking down Portland Street.

In the lower two images we are looking the other way to the opposite side of Argyle Street with the pink coloured building there is called Argyle House and the green building on the right with the arched window frames is the Mongkok Commercial Centre.