Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Montane Mansion, Quarry Bay

My most popular post on the blog is from the scene in Transformers that was shot around the Oceanic Mansion cluster of buildings in Quarry Bay. In this story it is a building that houses a variety of (seemingly) South Asian refugees. It's where the guy who was following Porter lives and she goes there to meet him to find out what's going on. The building is massive and separated into several (five, I think) differently named sections. This section is the courtyard between Montane Mansions and the Yick Cheong Building (Transformers was largely shot in the neighbouring courtyard).

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Soundwill Plaza Midtown, Tang Lung Street

Jonah goes for a lunch with Xo's power hungry assistant, Rachel, and finds out why he recognises her. This looks as though it was filmed on one of the top floors of the Midtown building in Causeway Bay. There's a restaurant on the 30th floor called Penthouse with a balcony area that seems to fit the bill but, as always, corrections welcome.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Urban Oasis, Kowloon Bay

Porter is out for a run when she gets a call. The place where she takes the call is a new park near the Choi Hung Estate called Urban Oasis. Although Google maps classes this as Kowloon Bay, the location is actually part of what used to be a military base at the far north of the old Kai Tak airport site.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Rumsey Street Pedestrian Bridge, Sheung Wan

As David makes his way to Macau we see him walking towards the Macau ferry terminal via the pedestrian bridge that runs alongside the Rumsey Street carpark.

Flight to Hong Kong - Rory Calhoun (1956) - Percival Street, Causeway Bay

During a car chase, the pursuer's car is blocked by a tram pulling out from what I believe to be the old tram depot in Causeway Bay - where the Times Square development now stands. That would make this the angled junction between Percival Street (on the left) and Russell St/Matheson St on the right.

Confirmation seems to come from the dome that can be just seen around the top left of the top image (directly above the car). This is the dome of the old Lee Theatre where Percival Street joins Leighton Road. The hill at the far end of Percival Street (past the dome) is Leighton Hill.

Flight to Hong Kong - Rory Calhoun (1956) - The Peak Tram, Central

Xmas must have addled my brain a little bit because I forget to put up a few of the remaining posts for Flight to Hong Kong. This is a scene when Dolores Donlon is being followed by a gangster and she hops on a tram at the lower tram terminus, and then rides it to barker Road before hopping off again and running away.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Trade & Industry Tower, Kai Tak

Back to the headquarters of Mr Xo, one of the Chief Executive candidates, for some ground level views of the entrance. In a nod to this area's former life - the building sits on where Kai Tak airport's north apron used to be - the road in front of the building is called Concorde Road. There's not much else here at the moment hence why (in the second image) you can see all the way down to the distant residential development called Grand Waterfront. Give it a few years and this place will be as densely developed as every other part of Kowloon.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Queen's Road East, Wanchai

A brief shot of Queen's Road East opens episode 4. In this view we are looking east from what is probably the pedestrian bridge near the junction with Hennessy Road. The purple painted building in the background is the Po Wah Building on the corner of Anton Street.

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Fa Yuen Street, Mongkok

I shall end the episode 3 posts of this series with a nice view up Fa Yuen Street in Mongkok which most people will be familiar with from its famous (but low quality) street market. Obviously this is the view that can be seen from the Mongkok Road walkway so for a bit of a Brucey bonus, I have also put an image of that in at the bottom ( as seen from the FEHD building).

Mongkok Road walkway

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - Trade & Industry Tower, Kai Tak

Despite the earlier unfurled banner on the Harbour Building (in Central/Sheung Wan) supposedly aimed at Xo's office, and then the establishing shot that zoomed over Causeway Bay, the real location used for the fictional HQ is the Trade and Industry Tower on the old Kai Tak site.