Something Good - Luca Barbareschi (2013) - Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei

Trying to draw out this film as much as I can (because I have nothing in backup after running out of sources) and figured I would give this rather difficult location a stab. After a few minutes (!) I realised this is the rooftop of a building located on the corner of the junction between Saigon Street and Temple Street.

You can't actually see Temple Street in this shot because it is below the frame of the shot but the rooftop the two are talking on has a Temple Street address (#151). The street that is implied by the gap in the buildings behind Gary Lewis is in fact Saigon Street running from bottom right to centre frame. The two buildings on the opposite side facing Saigon Street stand at either side of the junction with Shanghai Street.

In addition to the above rooftop shot, in another part of the film is a shot used as part of a transition sequence that shows what I believe to be the view to the north from this exact same spot. You can just make out the red/orange paint job of the Alhambra Building behind the netted scaffolding on the left, followed by Honour House in the middle (behind the green netting) and finally the stripey exterior of the Hang Shing Building on the right.

Dead or Alive: Final - Shô Aikawa (2002) - Saigon Street, Yau Ma Tei

In film you can make everything look like anything and Miike takes this pedestrian subway and turns it into the front entrance of a school attended by Honda's son. In reality this is the underpass that connects both parts of Saigon Street in Yau Ma Tei. That's Nathan Road in the background with an urban taxi heading southbound.

I Spy (TV Series) - Robert Culp (1965) - Majestic Theatre, Yau Ma Tei

Another nailed location thanks to Thomas and his eagle-eyes. In this case it is the Majestic Theatre on the corner of Nathan Road and Saigon Street in Yau Ma Tei.

As usual there is a trove of information provided by HK's premier cinema expert - Raymond Lo - on the Cinema Treasure website: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/29778

The Majestic Theatre (called 'theatre' but was a cinema ) closed in 1988 and was replaced by the Majestic Cinema which eventually closed in the late 90's. What we see in the screen shot below is of course the version that was there in 1965 i.e. the Majestic Theatre.

You can just make out the 'Majestic' lettering at the top right of the building. The smaller road at the side is the eastern part of Saigon Street (south is to the top in this screen shot). Interesting to note are the buildings on the right side of the picture. The low rise building - whose rooftop we can see - was replaced by the current Wing On department store, but the building just to the top (which is physically on the opposite side of Saigon Street) is actually still around. Here are some Streetview grabs to add a bit more context.

So this first picture above shows the site of where the Theatre and the Cinema stood - yes, that is the Novotel that now stands there. Saigon Street, or at least the eastern part of it can be seen just to the right of the hotel. The building to the right of the hotel and street is called the Kim Tak Building and it was completed in 1965 - so I guess that is the building we can see covered in scaffolding on the left of the 1965 screen grab.

Moving across Nathan Road to the opposite - pedestrianised - section of Saigon Street and you can see the building in front with Chow Tai Fook on the ground floor. It's called Wong House and was built circa 1959 and is the building we catch a brief snippet of in the top right of the 1965 screen grabs. On the far right of our modern view though you can see a small portion of the Wing On store that stands on the site of the former low rise building. Coincidentally, the Wing On store is also low-rise in this section and is probably the same height as the building we can see the roof of in the screen shot.

The World of Suzie Wong - William Holden (1960) - Ferry Street, Kowloon

Well, to finish off this series of Suzie Wong locations we have the final scene from the film which involves Suzie and her friends burning offerings to her baby's spirit at a temple. They exit the temple and turn right to walk away from camera and we see a bustling but I guess rather grotty harbour side.

For this location we have HK Man to thank. HK Man (a pseudonym obviously) spends his time taking "Then and Now" pictures all over HK. You can catch his excellent FLICKR stream here. But the snap we are interested in is this one.

Ferry Street was a small road in Yau Ma Tei that terminated at the harbour side we see above, and it wasn't until this area was later reclaimed that Ferry Street was able to grow a bit more into the modern version we know today which terminates at the junction with Argyle Street in Mongkok.

The road we can see to the right of the modern comparison is Kansu St, which means that Holden and Kwan would have exited the temple somewhere around where today's Saigon Street Playground now stands. Now, I do have access to a 1964 map of this area and there is no temple marked here so I can only think that some other antiquated building was used in lieu of a real temple - it wouldn't be hard for the filmmakers to make it look like a temple to be honest. But if anyone can tell me there was a real temple at this site I would be interested to hear any more information.