Yellow Emanuelle - Chai Lee (1977) - The Governor's Walk, Victoria Peak

George is beaten up when he is out with a "girlfriend" (gotta keep it sfw), and wakes up in hospital. As he recovers, he spends some of his time overlooking the views from the "hospital" grounds. The location of the hospital is in a later post but these views were taken far away from it at the top of Victoria Peak. The pathway in the images below is better known as The Governor's Walk because it's a pathway that leads from where the Governor's old summer residence, Mountain Lodge, used to be located. This isn't the only bit of geographical jiggery-pokery that goes on.

The location on the last two images below is marked on GoogleEarth as "Lookout Point" and back in 1977 offered views to both sides of Hong Kong Island. These days, with all the additional foliage, I'd be surprised if you can see anything.

Irreversi - Mei Melançon (2010) - Victoria Peak Garden, The Peak

Adam (Ian Bohen) wants to surprise Lynda (Mei Melançon) and takes her to a riding stables where he has hidden an engagement ring amongst the folds of one of the horse's manes. The opening shot shows a signboard that says "The Peak Stable". Of course, this doesn't really exist and the location on screen is the Victoria Peak Garden. It looks a bit different these days because the central flower garden section has been redesigned and the centre of the square now contains a small pavilion.

I also realised (after already publishing this post) that the final funeral service scene was also filmed at the same location. If you go to the right hand side of the above location, that side of the garden serve as the cemetery with some rather not-so-convincing gravestones stuck into the ground - the scene reminded me a bit of the one from Infernal Affairs. The peak in the background is the top of High West.

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine - Jean-Paul Belmondo (1965) - Victoria Peak Garden, The Peak

Well, after just posting a quick flashback to Grant Page in the Kung Fu Killers documentary, one of the locations we saw in that was a conical hill inside Victoria Peak Gardens where Page squares up against Carter Wong for some kung fu action. You can read that post here. However, about 10 years before Grant Page was up there with Carter Wong, Jean-Paul Belmondo was atop the same conical hill contemplating suicide.

 I'm not sure if the tree was real or a prop but surely something must have sat in the middle of the ringed pathway so I guess the tree might be real.

Kung Fu Killers - Grant Page (1974) - Victoria Peak Garden, The Peak

A final showdown with Carter Wong before moving onto our next film. This time the two go head to head on top of one of the conical hills that sit in Victoria Peak Garden. The larger of the two hills currently contains a radio mast and sits right in front of the gardens pavilion. This second hill is slightly to the north and sits just next to a development known as "Overthorpe".

To reach it these days you need to take a right hand fork in Mt Austin Road just before you get to Mountain Lodge gate House but Streetview tells me there is a small sign saying "No Admission, Private Area", so I can only assume it is related to the nearby reservoir or radio station on the peak.

Carter Wong with the radio station behind him

The 1970's Wanchai reclamation in the background

The following pictures show you the hill in relation to what were (I believe) Mount Austin Mansions (centre right) and the precursor to today's Peak Gardens (centre left). The small footpath to the top of the hill and its circular base are still marked on the Govt's geoinfo map, so I am assuming it is still there behind all the foliage (you can't see them via GoogleEarth).

But why the circle at the top? I can only assume that at some point in the past before it was made off limits it perhaps housed a small pavilion. This next picture shows the view to the south with the unmistakable garden pavilion in the background (and the slope of the other aforementioned hill on the left). For those that didn't realise, the pavilion and raised terrace marks the position where the original Governor's Mansion used to stand.