Hacker - Callan McAuliffe (2016) - Wellington Street, Central

The trio are nearly caught when they attempt to use one of their fake credit cards at a jewellery store on Wellington Street, but they notice the fraud alert on the screen just in time and do a runner. This shop was a real business located in the Lucky Building on Wellington Street.

Spitfire - Lance Henriksen (1995) - Wellington Street, Central

The pair are finally caught at the junction of Pottinger Street and Wellington Street. Not much has changed here at all, apart from the fashions.

Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong - Jamie Chung (2015) - Sense 99, Wellington Street

Just a couple of places to go for this film now and this one is another real venue and one that, this time, I can actually say I have been to. Sense 99 on Wellington Street was a live music venue/bar housed in one of the very skinny Chinese tenements that proliferate around many parts of Hong Kong. This is where Josh gets caught in a bit of a situation by one of his girlfriend's mates. Whoops!

Sadly, this rather nice (but noisy!) location closed down last year after the greedy landlord decided to up the rent by some ridiculous, but par for the course in HK, amount and the place had to move. I believe its new location is just up the road on Peel Street. Of course, what with Coronavirus doing the rounds, it may have closed down again already.

China Rose - George C. Scott (1983) - Wellington Street, Central

After having their strange lunch with old triad boss guy, the couple head out onto the street - surprisingly there are no geographical shenanigans going on here and they correctly exit onto Wellington Street. Most of the shops and buildings seen on the right (north) side of the street have already been demolished and replaced. Some fairly recently. The white building in the far back ground is called the Mandarin Building. It's still there but now dwarfed by its close neighbours.

The stone steps seen on the left here are where Staveley Street cuts across Wellington Street.

The couple notice they are being followed and turn down peel Street. The building in the penultimate picture with the metal windows is the Tai Cheung Pawn Shop - it's still there and hasn't changed.

China Rose - George C. Scott (1983) - Lin Heung Tea House, Wellington Street

Scott finds a note on his pillow to meet someone the next day, so the pair head off for their rendezvous and are just about to leave when the old triad guy turns up. The venue for this meetup is the famous Lin Heung Tea House on Wellington Street. We saw it last on this blog when JCVD and Rob Schneider went there in Knock Off.

I've never been to this place (still on my to-do list) but I think this scene was perhaps filmed in the upper floor of the restaurant which has the rather nice wood decor. Perhaps someone is able to confirm?

The Last Grenade - Stanley Baker (1969) - Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong

On the way from the airport to their accommodation - wherever that might be - and the boys are given a quick whirlwind tour around some local streets. I can't quite identify them all at the moment, but this one is instantly recognisable as the junction where Queen's Road Central intersects with Wellington Street. The curved corner building is actually still there and it looks like that whole block was built in the mid-60's.

Here's the current Streetview from a slightly to-the right angle, but you can still make out the features of the building quite well.

Knock Off - Jean Claude Van Damme (1997) - Lin Heung Tea House, Wellington Street

The eating scene in this movie was filmed at a bona fide HK establishment called Lin Heung (蓮香樓). I've never eaten there but it always seems to make it into the guide books for its authentic Hong Kong eating experience. It may be the only place left that allows the old blokes to hang their bird cages from the ceiling while they eat (there was another similar place in Mong kok often used by filmmakers - e.g. John Woo in Hard Boiled - that went under the wrecking ball when the Langham Place mall was built).

The restaurant is on the corner of Wellington Street and Aberdeen Street but these days seem to just be listed as the Lin Heung Bakery, so I'm not sure if the restaurant itself has moved or not? I'll assume not because it looks as though the steps up the to first floor restaurant (top picture) are still accessible. Writing about this is making me feel hungry, so I may venture out this way next week and see if it has changed.

Revenge of the Pink Panther - Peter Sellers (1978) - Pottinger Street, Central

After crashing down Aberdeen Street and failing to make the turn onto Hollywood Road, Kato - astride the Dairy Farm motorcycle - somehow finds himself charging out of control down the slab steps of Pottinger Street which is actually a little further along Hollywood Road than the film would let you believe.

By pure luck he manages to catch up with the car at the bottom where Pottinger Street meets Wellington Street before continuing on down Wellington Street. You can see the red brickwork of the Central Police Station on Hollywood Road at the top of Pottinger Street.

The Streetview picture below shows same acute junction where Lyndhurst Terrace leads off to the left and Wellington Street continues on down the hill. Same same but different.

Chinese Box - Jeremy Irons (1997) - Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong

At a point in the film, Irons runs after Cheung in an attempt to interview her for some personal project. They run out of the building, situated on Wellington Street, down to the junction with Queen's Road Central before Irons character starts to feel ill and stops on the pedestrian island that sits at the junction with Queen's Road Central and the top end of Bonham Strand.

So first we see a brief glimpse of the back of the Kam On Building at the end of Wellington Street.

The blue/white striped hoarding in the background is covering the in-progress constructions of Grand Millenium Plaza which includes Cosco Tower that was finished in 1997. Moving across the road to the island is where Irons starts to lag because of his illness. The upper picture below shows the camera looking down the curve of Queen's Road Central, whilst the lower picture of Maggie Cheung shows Bonham Strand just where it joins with Jervois Street.

Emmanuelle 2 - Sylvia Kristel (1975) - Postbox #47, Junction of Wellington St and Queen's Road, Central

Another post where I shall, perhaps stupidly, go out on a limb and make a stab at a location without any real firm evidence. The location revolves around the number on the postbox which currently refers to a spot where Queen's Road Central and Wellington Street meet up.

As you can see from the screen captures below, the postbox number is #47 and according to this rather excellent blog, it puts the current postbox of that number at this location. If this is a valid assumption then the building at the background would be the pre-cursor to the current Hong Kong Jewellery Building, built in 1984.

Anyway, I leave this one out there in case anyone has any firmer evidence that can confirm either way.