Showing posts with label Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Bloodfight - Yasuaki Kurata (1989) - King's Park, Kowloon

The establishing shot for this scene is the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as seen from King's Park. Masa harasses Ryu to become his student as Ryu plays basketball on the King's Park Recreation Ground basketball courts.These are still around should you feel the need to shoot some hoops like Simon Yam. The modern looking building in the background is the HK Red Cross Blood donation centre.

The bottom images show the slope down from the hill where it joins King's Park Rise, just next to the aforementioned basketball courts.This is seen in a slightly later sequence as Masa is still harassing Ryu to become his student.

Friday, March 18, 2022

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Righting Wrongs - Yuen Biao (1986) - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon

The establishing shot used for the hospital scene - where Biao and Rothrock swear revenge over the body of Louis Fan - was Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon. The main building has changed little, but the carpark and connecting walkways you can see in the image below have since been removed and replaced by a brand new annex that contains the Block D operating theatre.

This is the last proper Hong Kong shot of the film because the subsequent warehouse scenes where the fight with Melvin Wong starts looks to have been shot in a studio (or at least an anonymous warehouse that defies identification) and the airborne shots at the end were, like the film's opening gun fight, filmed in New Zealand.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The Black Dragon's Revenge - Ronnie Van Clief (1975) - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon

The Black Dragon's Revenge is a 1975 film starring Ronnie Van Clief as..Ronnie Van Clief, a friend of Bruce Lee who has been hired by a mysterious Chinese client to find out how Bruce really died. The funny thing about the version I have is that it is obviously censored so that whenever Bruce Lee is mentioned, the "Lee" part of his name is erased from the audio. No doubt Bruce's highly litigious daughter, Shannon, has had a hand in this as she has with everything else.

Anyway, the film starts off with some shots around the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where Bruce was taken the night he died (I think most fans agree now that he was dead long before he was even put into the ambulance, let alone by the time he turned up at the hospital). Check out the disclaimer in the first image (I guess that bit escaped the "Lee" censor).


Note the appearance in the background of the fourth image is a sign that says "Fortuna". This was the Fortuna Court Hotel over on Chi Wo Street.