The Taxi Driver - David Chiang (1975) - Princess Margaret Road, Ho Man Tin

After the bank robbery, Chen leaps out of the taxi as it is driving along Princess Margaret Road in Ho Man Tin. This causes the car to crash into the central barriers. This was filmed at the same spot along Princess Margaret Road where The Young Rebel filmed the same year. The low building on the right (second image) is the HKSPCA building.

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Chi Man Street, Ho Man Tin

This was almost another addition to the Princess Margaret Road post, but the sequence plays out on a smaller road nearby so it was worth creating a separate post. This scene is our first introduction to Gen Lai in his new role as a policeman. He had been mentioning his new job to Xiao Rong earlier in the film, but the latter wasn't interested, but here we see him sweep into action as a thief steals someone's handbag and Gen Lai catches him. The thief is played by Tino Wong Cheung.

The scene starts at the petrol station on Princess Margaret Road right next to Chi Man Street. The thief then runs down the latter to the start of Oi Sen Path.

Princess Margaret Road, Chi Man Street in the foreground

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Steps between Man Wan Lane and Princess Margaret Road

During the bike chase, just after going up and down the pedestrian bridge along Princess Margaret Road (see this post for all the locations along that road), the bikes can next be seen bouncing down some concrete steps next to a granite brick retaining wall. I hadn't realised at the time, but this set of steps actually forms part of my Bruce Lee Guide to the Rest of Kowloon Part 1 self-guided walking tour (see point 4). You can see an image of the top of the steps here.

The main road at the bottom is Princess Margaret Road

The Young Rebel - David Chiang (1975) - Princess Margaret Road, Ho Man Tin

This is another road that crops up several times. Whilst on a delivery, Xiao Rong decides to save some time by grabbing on to the back of a truck along Princess Margaret Road. The building right next to the road was/is the HKSPCA, although these days that side of the building is used as a big long placeholder for a variety of advertising boards. The building is still there though, as is that great block of rock that can be seen at the side of the road in the first image - it marks a cutting made for the KCR track which is below the road there.

We go back to the same road later in the film during the bike chase as Rong tries to escape the gang on his bike and we see the group go up and down the pedestrian bridge located just before the intersection with Wylie Road. The bridge is still there and relatively unchanged although some lifts have been added on each side where there was once steps. The large building in the background of the lower images was the British Military Hospital Kowloon. It was demolished in the 90s and replaced by "Parc Palais".

The Kowloon Military Hospital is in the background

The low rise building with the pitched roof is the Diocesan Pastoral Centre.

The last view of Princess Margaret Road is this one looking north next to the - then - turn off to Hung Hom. The building work going on behind the retaining wall is where Yu Chun Keung Memorial College is now located. The area behind the truck on the left hand side is now the Pui Ching Road Rest Garden.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Princess Margaret Road, Ho Man Tin

We continue along Princess Margaret Road and in the background is a building still around - the "Maryknoll Sisters Centre". You can just about make out the large cross that has been shaped into the window aperture above the main entrance.

Inter-Pol - Tang Ching (1967) - Waterloo Road

The next shot shows the cars driving up Waterloo Road on the Princess Margaret Road Flyover. We come back to this same area (more or less) a bit later as we get a top down view of the junction with Argyle Street and the aforementioned flyover as 009's car comes back the other way. These latter two images must have been taken from a camera located on the roof of the newly built Harrison Court.

Shatter - Stuart Whitman (1974) - Princess Margaret Road, Ho Man Tin

A brief glimpse during the credits of the area just north of Hung Hom train station, in fact covering a bit of the road system we saw a short time ago when looking at That Man Bolt.

This bit is from the opening credits as Shatter is in a cab on the way to see the contractor. We see the car, from a distance, driving down Princess Margaret Road as it passes the eastern side of King's Park. Unfortunately it's impossible for me to recreate this same view using Streetview, because it looks as though the camera was mounted somewhere along Chung Hau Street. However, looking at the top screen grab there is a building we have encountered before: it's the British Military Hospital in Kowloon and can be seen far left in the picture below.

In case you need a reminder, it was used in an episode of Yellowthread Street that I covered last year. These days the site contains a rather large residential development called Parc Palais.

The bottom picture is at the end of a right to left pan and shows the subject car driving up the entry ramp onto what becomes Chatham Road South near to the intersection with Gascoigne Road. Here's a Streetview taken from the same road the car is travelling along, looking back north towards the KCR tunnel we can see in the top picture (with Parc Palais at the back).

Sunset - Paul Chin Pei (1971) - Princess Margaret Road, Kowloon

Here is one found inadvertently thanks to Dan Thomas managing to spot a difficult location from Police Story. I've never been to this part of Kowloon and was thrown for a while by the Chinese writing on the wall of the building in the right of the shot which (I think?) says "Mongkok" - or at least the proper Chinese equivalent.

I can't recreate the exact angle but here is a shot from street view where you can see that the church above is still around. The church is the Kowloon namesake of a perhaps more famous one on HK Island called Hop Yat Church. Here is the (Chinese) website: http://klnc.hopyatchurch.org.hk/klnc/web/index.php.

The next shot afterwards is a bit wobbly (I had de-interlace turned on and only later realised that for moving screenshots it wasn't so great) but you get to see the corner with the small low-rise Kowloon Hospital out clinic tucked into the bend. It's still there, by the way but the flyover has an additional flyover built over the top of it now running east to west along Argyle Street.