The Confidence Man JP: The Movie - Masami Nagasawa (2019) - Quarry Bay Street, Quarry Bay

Perhaps another nod, or maybe just coincidental, to Transformers: Age of Extinction filming locations is the inclusion of a brief scene shot in Quarry Bay Street. Here it is in Transformers: Age of Extinction. Although in the image below we are looking in the opposite direction compared to Transformers. 

Ghost in the Shell - Scarlett Johansson (2017) - Quarry Bay Street, Quarry Bay

Just a quick glimpse of Oceanic Mansion/Montane Mansion in Quarry Bay. You may recall that Michael Bay filmed Transformers: Age of Extinction here back in 2014 and was attacked by one of the shop owners demanding compensation.

Trivia: that Transformers post is currently my #1 most popular on this blog. I have no idea why.

It looks like the Ghost in the Shell film makers also used one of the podiums at the back for a brief shot looking up to the sky, a very similar aspect to the one shot at Mei King Mansions earlier but without the futuristic plane flying overhead. This shot was taken from Quarry Bay Street looking east near to the start of the Mount Parker Green Trail.

Transformers: Age of Extinction - Mark Wahlberg (2014) - Quarry Bay Part 2 - Quarry Bay Street, Quarry Bay

The film makers made good use of Quarry Bay and there are several distinct locations we will see over the next few posts. Here is a brief look down a side alleyway off Quarry Bay Street, in fact immediately behind the central rear section of the main building.

The interesting thing to note here is that this small alley has a staircase immediately behind where the camera is sited. This means the stunt rider either had to slam on the brakes quite hard or they constructed a ramp for then to drive up so they could film them travelling past at speed.

Either way, the Google car couldn't drive down here and so I had to go myself and the result can be seen below.

Interestingly, the building seen behind the bike is the Quarry Bay Market and Cooked Food Centre which is part of the Quarry Bay Municipal Services building. We've seen it before on this blog many moons ago from an episode of Yellowthread Street called Angel Eyes. At that time though it was still under the auspices of the now defunct Urban Council and was called the 'Quarry Bay Complex'.

Quarry Bay Market and Cooked Food Centre

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Quarry Bay Municipal Services Building, Quarry Bay Street

Once upon a time there was an official body in the Hong Kong Govt called the Urban Council. It was basically responsible for Govt services that are now run by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department - in other words a huge area of control - and by 1994 it was a body wholly elected by a one person one vote democratic system.

Tung Che Hwa got rid of it pretty quick - can't have any of that silly democracy nonsense now can we...

Anyway, I thought I would mention it because the U.C logo pops up in our next screen capture as Eden (Bruce Payne) waits outside what was the Urban Council Quarry Bay Complex for his ride to meet the evil Melvin Wong in Angel Eyes.

Pretty much all trace of the former Urban Council has been removed but you can still see its emblem on the Central Library building opposite Victoria park. Anyway, when the U.C was finally abolished, everything was renamed and this building above, on Quarry Bay Street, became the Quarry Bay Municipal Services Building.

Other than a bit of extra bridging from the pedestrian flyover (an extension of the same one that can be seen in the distance on this post) and the obvious name change, it hasn't changed at all.