Meteor - Sean Connery (1979) - Hollywood Road, Central

The last post from this film, this time not too far from a previous shot on Pottinger Street. As the mass is running away from the wave along Hollywood Road at the junction with Lyndhurst Terrace, it suddenly appears at the top and sweeps down the road. The curve here has changed much even though much of Lyndhurst Terrace seems to have been redeveloped.

Meteor - Sean Connery (1979) - Connaught Road, Central

The tsunami strikes Hong Kong Island after it washes away most of the Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter. The first place it hits here is the waterfront between Jardine House and City Hall right smack on top of the Edinburgh Place carpark.

Meteor - Sean Connery (1979) - Java Road, North Point

Another brief scene showing the screaming masses (actually, most look like they are having a bit of a laugh being extras for the day) was filmed at the junction between North Point Road and Java Road over in North Point. The buildings at the front have since been redeveloped, but the ones at the back AND the pawn shop (全興大押 ) are still around. I believe the pawnshop has recently replaced that large red sign with a smaller LED one though.

Meteor - Sean Connery (1979) - Pottinger Street, Central

After seeing everyone rushing away from the typhoon shelter in Yau Ma Tei the next shot shows, supposedly, the same group of people as they rush up Pottinger Street in Central. I've got to admit, I think even with a tsunami bearing down on me I wouldn't be able to run even half as fast as they did to get there so quickly.

The lower photo shows the junction at Hollywood Road with the former Central Police Station compound in the background.

Meteor - Sean Connery (1979) - Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter, Kowloon

A second outing for Sean Connery on this blog although, similar to You Only Live Twice, he doesn't actually venture to Hong Kong in person. This film is a late 70's disaster movie which features Hong Kong as one of the locations around the globe that suffers the catastrophic affects of having small pieces of a larger meteor crashing into the sea just off the coast. Cue a massive tsunami that hits the territory and destroys everyone and everything in its path.

The Hong Kong scenes are basically just ones of mad panic as everyone runs away from the incoming wave. The first place to be hit is the old typhoon shelter in Yau Ma Tei. The top shot is the view looking north from the area of the Ferry Point Estate, showing the entirety of the shelter up to what was Cherry Street. The last two pictures show the southern end of the shelter with the Ferry Point Estate buildings in the background. Of course that whole area was reclaimed a long time ago and is now full of high-rise residential developments. 

You Only Live Twice - Sean Connery (1967) - Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong

Not much of a challenge here I guess, but sometimes I need a bit of a break from all this location hunting and like to throw stuff in just for posterity. Here is the tracking shot of the harbour as Bond's enemies watch his body being cast into the sea from a British Naval boat.

Looking at the top pictures, even taking the camera lens into account, the harbour looks really wide compared to today's small skinny lowfat version...

...on a side note, I will say that the underwater scenes where Bond is picked up by frogmen and carried back to the submarine were almost definitely not filmed in Hong Kong harbour. The water is so clear in that scene it can only have been filmed in a tank (probably the famous one at Pinewood?).

You Only Live Twice - Sean Connery (1967) - Tam Kung Road, To Kwa Wan

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a diversion. It's our second Bond outing on this site, but officially the first time Bond was seen in Hong Kong. Having said that, unlike Roger Moore in The Man With The Golden Gun, we never really see Connery in Hong Kong, only in a completely unbelievably huge boudoir where he gets shot, and then inside a submarine where he is zipped over to Japan in less than five minutes flat (this could explain why lots of people still believe Hong Kong to be in Japan...).

Anyway, there is a brief street scene as we see the killers and cops rushing into Bonds private meeting.

There appears to be lots of confusion over the location of this scene. Thanks to an online discussion I had been led to believe this was Nathan Road in Mongkok, but now, according to one of the comments below, it now looks as though it is Tam Kung Road in To Kwa Wan.

Anyway, here is what it looks like today and I suspect that the doorway the cops go into was Tam Kung Mansion at 45 - 63 Tam Kung Road.