Infernal Affairs - Andy Lau (2002) - Former Government Building, Prince Edward Road East

I mentioned that the internal police station scenes, at least those of Andy Lau's office, were filmed somewhere other than Ngau Tau Kok Police Station. The building, whose name and purpose I have yet to discover, was located where "The Latitude" (a residential development) now stands at the corner of Prince Edward Road East and Choi Hung Road. All I know is that it was a Government building and was most likely vacated for demolition at the time, which is why the production company were able to use it.

Look carefully through the window behind Lau in the screen caps below and you can see the curved slip road that takes traffic from Choi Hung Road down onto the south bound section of Prince Edward Road East at the northern boundary of the former Kai Tak site. What I can't say for sure is when this building was demolished - sometime around the mid-00s - and whether or not it was also used for the other interior police station scenes (I'm guessing yes).

If anyone knows what the building was used for, please feel free to send a mail or leave a comment.

Die Jungen Tiger von Hongkong - Robert Woods (1969) - Kai Tak Airport - Part 3, Kowloon City

The final dispatch from Kai Tak which shows a few of the other areas not already seen. Woods basically goes here to throw his enemies off the scent so they believe he is leaving Hong Kong.

Fred and George Weasley in the background

 The last picture shows Woods running after his mate's car. The building in the backghround is still around, it's the Po Sing Court on Shek Ku Lung Road. It was built in 1967 so fairly new (and clean!) when this film was made, however, since then it has had the Regal Oriental Hotel built right in front of it and is hard to see from the road these days.

Foxbat - Henry Silva (1977) - Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon City

Another establishing shot just in case you failed to recognise Hong Kong's famous harbour from the first one. This one is of a plane coming into land from the vantage point of the carpark next to Prince Edward Road East.

I Spy (TV Series) - Robert Culp (1965) - Prince Edward Road East, Kowloon City

A similar shot (probably reused) from No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise, showing the view from Kai Tak airport looking over Prince Edward Road East towards Kowloon City. This was filmed at a time before the Regal Airport Kowloon Hotel was built and also before the single lane exit/entrance ramps were built.

This one is another one of AP's rather excellent panorama stitches which show a nice wide angle from the end of Nga Tsin Wai Road on the left to the buildings lining Sa Po Road on the right. The car park at the front of the terminal building can be seen in the bottom of the picture.

It seems that the only building that has survived the past 50+ years is the one on the far right (between the orange/red  and blue signs). It's a nameless building that occupies 43 - 49 Sa Po Road. Everything else has been demolished and redeveloped. Here's an approximation of the same angle using Streetview. 

Yep, lots of changes road-side as well. The flyover is the aforementioned single lane exit ramp from the airport carpark which pretty much blocks any kind of useful view. I have no idea if the flyovers will remains once the former airport area is finally redeveloped.

I Spy (TV Series) - Robert Culp (1965) - Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon City

Certainly a welcome blast from the past. I always enjoy looking at old pictures of Kai Tak airport because, despite the fact that I flew in and out of it on several occasions, I have only very vague memories of the place. Anyway, this sequence of screen grabs starts off looking over at Prince Edward Road East and the easternmost buildings in Kowloon City before the car we are following pulls into the car park and then stops in front of the terminal building.

Note the circular booth and the flyover the car passes under, and then take a look at this Govt Archive photo taken a round the same time and it will give you a bit of context as to where it all was.

As I mentioned my memories, despite being fairly recent ('95, '96 and early '98) are sketchy, I just remember the square columns inside the terminal building (you'll see them in a minute), the escalator going up to the viewing cafe place and the bank of telephones at the top and of course the long straight area where all the gates were. I even remember the name of a bloke I started talking to there once (where are you now Gable Merrick?) and even almost missing my plane once because the gate only opened about 5 minutes before departure and I was too busy wandering around with my pals taking snaps (now lost, I suspect). It's very disconcerting when you are running along a very busy terminal building and someone comes up to you and uses your own name to tell you to hurry (yes, I was the last person to board...).

Anyway, here are a few more pictures of Robert Culp inside the building.