Royal Warriors - Michelle Yeoh (1986) - Market Side Alley, Stanley

The film is a bit cheeky because after the scene at Ka Wing Street, the next shot shows that we are back on Stanley Village Road as the two sides take shots at each other from their cars. Raging Bull swerves his truck down the alley way next to the old Stanley Police Station and crashes it into some stalls and Yamamoto is flung from the back. The truck then continues on down the alley way as Yamamoto dives after it (a great stunt by Sanada, I assume).

The foot chase then begins around Stanley Market. The bottom image is looking along one of the alleyways with Yu Moon House at the end. Apologies, but the google marker is doing that thing again where it won't stay on the road where I've placed it and is jumping to nearby buildings.

Back to Stanley Village Road

This is the side alley next to the old Police Station - compare to the next image

This is the same view in June 2024 - note the old Chinese buildings have gone

Running towards Stanley New Street at the end of the alleyway

Royal Warriors - Michelle Yeoh (1986) - Stanley Village Road, Stanley

In case the geographical leap from Clearwater Bay to Kowloon Tsai to Shatin to Fo Tan wasn't enough, the next section of the car chase takes us all the way over to Stanley on Hong Kong Island. In the top images, Raging Bull's truck is driving along Tung Tau Wan Road  and takes the sharp corner into Wong Ma Kok Road. Yamamoto's BMW comes from the other direction (Stanley Village Road) but makes the same turn on to Wong Ma Kok Road. The building in the background is St Anne's Church and on the opposite corner is the former grand gateway onto what was once a large property called Banoo Villa (since demolished and turned into low-rise apartments with the same name).

The lower images show the view in the opposite direction along Stanley Village Road. The building with the large apertures at ground level (to the left of the crowd) is the former Colonial-era Police Station. Coincidentally, I was in Stanley the other day and decided to try and recreate the angles (from memory, though not too bad a job). Once again the Google marker is refusing to stay where I'vepinned it and is jumping to the nearby post office rather than remaining at the junction of the 3 roads.

Same place June 2024

June 2024 -Police Station in scaffolding

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine - Jean-Paul Belmondo (1965) - Stanley Gap Road, Stanley

More Tai Tam Road action in the next scene, but actually the bed isn't on that road, it's on Stanley Gap Road instead, coming down the hill towards the hairpin bend where it meets Tai Tam Road and Stanley Village Road just above the aptly named Hair Pin Beach. Again, the bed must have been doing some fairly funky manoeuvres to get here.

Other than the addition of a painted roundabout to make the turn slightly less hair raising, I don't think this place has really changed much.