Legacy of Rage - Brandon Lee (1986) - Sai Sha Road, Ma On Shan

After some of the car chase takes place at the Tseung Kwan O landfill, all of a sudden we move to Ma On Shan and the area around Whitehead Point and Lok Wo Sha. The area was very much undeveloped at the time and I suspect that the Michael's house was largely just a facade constructed for the film.

The first image shows the view looking east, towards Ma Kap Lun and the range on the other side of Three Fathoms Cove. The second image is looking the other way with Grassy Hill in the distance.

The next images should be familiar to anyone who has read my posts for The Young Master  because it is closer to Whitehead Point. The key landmark here is the pointy hill in the background which is the northern point of Ma On Shan mountain. This can help narrow down the location to somewhere close to where Nin Wah Road meets LokWo Sha Lane. It looks like the house facade was constructed at the Whitehead Point-end of Lok Wo Sha Lane facing Ma On Shan. The last image below shows the view along Lok Wo Sha Lane with Wong Leng - a hill in north Tai Po - in the background.

Police Story - Jackie Chan (1985) - Sai Sha Road, Sai Kung

The remote rural road where Ka Kui drives his kidnapped boss to before letting him off, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, was the section of Sai Sha Road not far from Chat Sing Temple. Sadly there is an immense amount of development going on here at the moment and the whole place looks more like a building site rather than the rural idyll seen on the film. The view is looking south.

Kickboxer - Jean Claude Van Damme (1989) - Nai Chung, Ma On Shan

I guess this are should be considered as Sai Kung district rather than Ma On Shan, but seeing as the latter is the closer town I shall leave it for the time being. Besides, a few years later the very same spot (almost) was used in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Coincidentally, in both films the area is supposed to be in Thailand. In Dragon, it was the substitute for Pak Chong and in Kickboxer it is the Thai village that Van Damme is sent to for groceries by Dennis Chan (Chan is by far the best thing in this film).

I think the production team behind Kickboxer did a better job at hiding the nearby village compared to when Dragon was filmed here. The open ground where this was filmed appears to still be there.

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story - Jason Scott Lee (1993) - Nai Chung, Ma On Shan

Off we go to Thailand to catch up with the filming of The Big Boss (that's Fists of Fury if you are from the US). Except that we don't travel to Thailand but just head out into the New Territories to a place called Nai Chung. We've visited here before, sometime ago now, with Shaw's Shaolin Temple but this time we are a few yards back from the mudflat and on an area of land next to Nai Chung village. The hills in the back are the same ones we can see at the end of The Prodigal Son (and a host of other films according to Andi's Hong Kong Movie Tours blog).

We can almost exactly see where we are because the top screencap shows that the camera accidentally caught a village house in the bottom right part of the picture. This house is actually No.22 Nai Chung village and still looks the same today (although I don't have a picture of it).

Anyway, I'm sure that this isn't the first time this area has stood-in for Thailand and I think we may see it in a later blog whenever I get around to looking at Jean-Claude Van Damme's original outing as Kickboxer.

The Young Master - Jackie Chan (1980) - Chat Sing Temple, Ma On Shan

Andi has already covered this location quite well in his HK Movie Tour blog but I thought it is worth mentioning that it also gets a very very brief show (blink and you'll miss it) in JC's The Young Master. You catch a quick glimpse whilst JC is doing his best to run away from the Police Chief's son (played by Yuen Biao).

The wall in front of this temple seems to be almost unique in HK and I can't recall having seen anywhere else with it. I have no idea of the purpose it serves other than being decorative. It's no surprise this location was used again in this film as The Young Master shares two locations with Drunken Master, this one and the sandy path that used to be located next to Starfish Bay - both locations within 1km of each other.

Anyway, here is a modern view via Streetview and seeing as this film was only shot 33 years ago (I'm writing this in 2013) it wouldn't surprise me if the tree you can see on the left above is the same one you can see to the right of the temple below.

On a side note, despite watching this film many times in my youth I was too naive to realise that JC gets his super strength from drinking the water from Fung Fung's opium pipe in the grand finale (location to be revealed in a later post).