Something Good - Luca Barbareschi (2013) - Tai Ping Shan Street, Sheung Wan

Although they don't know it at the time, our two main protagonists cross paths on a rainy day early on in the film outside the small Kwun Yam Temple next to the steps on Tai Ping Shan Street. The same location is also seen later as they are on the run from the police detective who is trying to get hold of Matteo. The top image is the rainy day scene from earlier in the film and the lower two are the evening chase.

Felicity - Glory Annen (1978) - Tai Ping Shan Street, Sheung Wan

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure about this place but it is the only one that makes any sense. My problem is that the area has changed so much that it is impossible for me to confirm categorically one way or another. Anyway, it's a scene when Felicity and her friend (played by Joni Flynn) head to a temple. The Chinese writing we can see in the clips is the same script (and style) that can be seen at the Pak Shing Temple on Tai Ping Shan Street.

I *think* the large characters on the first image say 勝地 (reading R-L), which basically just means it is a famous place/scenic spot. If this is the case then I think it adds to my belief that this is the temple on Tai Ping Shan Street, or at least a former version of it. However, I am hoping Chinese readers will be able to confirm.

At the top of the second image is the words (also read from R-L) 濟公聖佛. This appears to be one of the set of characters that still appears on the Pak Shing Temple exterior and I can only assume that it refers to one of the shrines within the temple dedicated to 濟公 - a Song Dynasty monk - but I can't be sure.

Anyway, it's quite obvious that the building we see below looks nothing like the current structure that was supposedly built in 1851. However, its seems too coincidental to me that these images share the same Chinese signage as the current Kwong Fuk Ancestral hall. So I will put this one up and hope somebody is able to confirm one way or another and fill in the gaps in details.

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Tai Ping Shan Street, Sheung Wan

The car chase at the beginning of Chinese Boxes involves some nifty steering around the small narrow thoroughfares of the Tai Ping Shan district in Sheung Wan. With particular heavy usage is Tai Ping Shan Street itself which we see from multiple angles in an attempt to disguise the fact that it's one street.

This seems to have been a popular location for Yellowthread Street because the production crew have used this area afew times in the past.

Here are some of the screen shots and their corresponding Streetview counterparts. The first shots are taken from the top (in front of the steps that lead up/down from Bridges Street) of the street looking down towards the upper part of Tung Street on the left (there seems to be some disagreement about whether that small lane is part of Tung Street or part of Kat Cheong Street which curves around the back of the buildings on the left).

It's a bit tidier these days, relatively speaking, but the brown tiled wall (where the striped tarpaulin is fixed to) is still around as you can see. You'll notice that the distant buildings at the far end of the street are still around - the smaller tenement now painted green is No.4-6 Po Yan Street), and the taller white building behind it is the Universal Building on New Street.

The next shots show us looking back up the road towards the junction with Square Street (you can just make out the blurry name on the street sign at the back) and the steps up to Bridges Street. The first screen cap is a bit closer to the junction, the second one taken from further down the road.

The steps are still around but where there used to be a building (the one with the street sign) is now a walled off empty plot. In the far distance at the top of the steps we can just make out the building that is now the Woman's Welfare Club Western District at No. 60 Bridges Street.

The next shots shows the car chase turning off Tai Ping Shan Street onto Upper Station Street. The wall at the back is the retaining wall that holds up the northern side of Blake Garden.

As you can see the small bit of the road that extends up to the wall of Blake Garden is still a popular place to park your lorry!

The car chase sort of fizzles out when the cops get stuck behind a reversing truck. Although not strictly Tai Ping Shan Street, it's close enough to include it here at the end because it was filmed back at the top of the hill on the southern part of Blake Garden where Kui In Fong, Po Hing Fong and Caine Lane meet at the bottom of the steps next to the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences. In true film fashion the cars have done a complete circle around Blake Garden! I can't get a good recreation for the area on Streetview so will just leave you with the screen caps.

Filmed from the top of the steps up to the museum

Looking towards Po Hing Fong from Kui In Fong

Yellowthread Street (TV Series) - Bruce Payne (1990) - Sai Street, Sheung Wan

It all kicks off between the cops and the gangsters, in Power Play, when Bruce and co are sitting down for noodles and minding their own business. Up comes some bully boys and all hell breaks loose. The location was the rather hidden away dead-end of Sai Street - where it intersects with Tai Ping Shan Street.

Awesome hair Bruce! Anyway, here is how it looks today, sadly no noodles in sight.