The Angel Strikes Again - Lily Ho (1968) - Waterloo Road, Kowloon Tong

Agent 009 has a special device that irradiates people so they can be tracked. She uses it to mark the gang boss and then follows her out of the cinema. The first place we see them drive is along Waterloo Road. The first image shows the section outside the Maryknoll school near Boundary Street (you can see the dark brown brick of the school on the left). The remaining images shows the junction with Rutland Quadrant furthr to the north. There used to be an open nullah running right up the middle of Waterloo Road and you can see its low brick wall surround in the top three images.

Bruce Lee: True Story - Ho Chung Tao (1976) - Rutland Quadrant, Kowloon Tong

In one scene, Bruce comes to the defence of some roadworkers who are being bullied by some local jogging "expats". I use this term in the derogatory sense that is implied in the film - basically a bunch of forerigners come down the road and expect the roadworkers to move out of the way for them - a surprisingly prevalent attitude of many people in HK, although no longer the preserve of just the foreign contingent in Hong Kong.

Anyway, fans of the genre will easily recognise Mars - Jackie Chan's right hand man for many years - as the main worker. Bruce can be seen running towards them along Cumberland Road whereas the runners come from the direction of Waterloo Road along Rutland Quandrant.

The Black Dragon's Revenge - Ronnie Van Clief (1975) - Rutland Quadrant, Kowloon Tong

Once they are turned away from Miss Tang's house, the duo walk around the "corner" (in reality a distance of more than 13 kilometres as the crow flies) and suddenly appear at the junction of what is now To Fuk Road, York Road and Rutland Quadrant. Obviously the film makers wanting to create the impression that the house is located in Kowloon Tong instead of way out in the far New Territories.

Surprisingly little has changed in this area, apart from the fact that To Fuk Road has been created and is now the road between here and Kowloon Tong MTR Station. Back then it was a small street at the end of York Road that led around the back of the last house (#13 York Road, which we will see in a minute) and joined up with Norfolk Road behind.

The back road that became To Fuk Road

Looking down Rutland Quadrant

Kowloon Tong District Scout HQ (still there)

The view looking down York Road with Rutland Quadrant on the left

Anyway, the pair get ambushed by people who don't want them discovering the truth behind Bruce's death and they promptly beat them all up. Ronnie gets to beat someone up with the aforementioned #13 York Road in the background. This house is one of the better examples of art-deco architecture in the estate and still exists in more or less the same state with the exception of some remodelling behind where Ronnie's head is. Also the same garden wall still exists but has had some additional height added. Actually, the house has been afforded a heritage grading and you can read a bit more about it on Gwulo.com. 

#13 York Road