The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Kwun Tong Public Pier, Kwun Tong

Where Ah Jong goes to contemplate his life after realising he had been double-crossed. The Kwun Tong Public Pier is the smallest of the 3 piers at this location, the other ones being the ferry pier and the vehicular ferry pier. Judging by the amount of mist on the harbour, I would say this scene was probably filmed around this time of year (March/April) as the air starts to warm up and the humidity starts to creep up. The harbour does sometimes get this weird thick covering of fog so it was good timing to capture it on film.

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation, Lam Tin

Arriving at the so-called "Scared Heart Hospital" - a very typical but hilarious Hong Kong spelling mistake, of course it should say "Sacred" - Ah Jong rushes the girl into the casualty department so she can be attended to.

In reality this was (and still is) a real medical facility. Originally constructed on Rehab Path as the Margaret Trench Medical Rehabilitation centre, by the time of filming it was the HQ of the Hong Kong Sports Association for the Physically Handicapped - later renamed to the Hong Kong Sports Association for the Physically Disabled. Anyway, it's still around and is now the Lam Tin HQ for the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation but now has several new buildings that form part of the Red Cross Princess Alexandra School. It looks like the boarding house of the school replaced the section containing the access slopes that Ah Jong can be seen running down once he makes his escape from the cops.

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Lower Shing Mun Road, Tai Wai

As Ah Jong makes his way to the hospital, one of the roads he drives along is the Lower Shing Mun Road. You can see the grass covered dam wall in the background. I'm not sure where he thinks he's going because it's a dead end. However, in movieland it takes him to the hospital.

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - To Tau Wan, Wu Kai Sha

Ah Jong reaches his escape location where there is a car waiting for him. Unbenownst to him though, he'swalkedinto an ambush by the gang who hired him. The police turn up just in time to help him take out a few of the bad guys and Ah Jong is able to take an injured girl to the nearby hospital with the police still in pursuit.

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Tolo Harbour, Tai Po

The boat chase is so long it passes all the way down into Tolo Habour with Pat Sin Leng on full show in the background. This is quite an impressive chase because this would be a distance of around 50km - having to go all around the north coast of the Sai Kung Country Park and all the way down the Tolo Channel.

Pat Sin Leng in the distance

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Port Shelter, Sai Kung

The boat chase starts off at the waterfront in Sai Kung but soon moves out into Port Shelter as Ah Jong tries to evade his pursuers. The lower image shows the gap between Jin Island (Tiu Chung Chau) and Tiu Chung Pai, a small rocky islet off the south coast.

This last one is the gap between Jin Island and Tiu Chung Pai

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Sai Kung Waterfront, Sai Kung

The second location that formed the assassination sequence is Sai Kung's waterfront. These scenes all involve the main actors and a variety of close ups as the VIP dots the boats' dragonhead eyes, and the beginning of the boat chase once Ah Jong is spotted by the police. The area where the filming took place is where Man Nin Street comes to the waterfront. In the background you can see the Siu Yat Building.

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Aberdeen Harbour

The dragon boat races that feature in the film provide the backdrop to one of Ah Jong's assassinations and despite some clever editing it's possible the see that the races and the assassination were filmed in two separate locations. Much of the establishing footage for the races was actually filmed at a real event in Aberdeen Harbour. Pre-pandemic this was a yearly occurance for Aberdeen (and elsewhere around the territory such as Stanley, Shatin, Taipo etc) and so it would have been very easy to go along and film or track down enough library footage to put together the sequence.

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - High Street, Sai Ying Pun

The (former) location of Ah Jong's apartment is revealed in a couple of shots that feature, at least bits of, Kau Yan Church in Sai Ying Pun. On the south side of High Street, directly opposite the church, was a row of four old tenements occupying #80 thru #86 High Street. One of these (I don't know which) contained Ah Jong's apartment. Sadly - and this seems to be a common theme in John Woo films, so perhaps explains why he tends to destroy them with exploding squibs - all four of the buildings were demolished just shortly afterwards and Lai Yin Court was constructed in the same space.

In the first images below we are looking from behind the stone steps in front of the church up at where we assume Ah Jong's apartment is. I've included a couple of interior views which I have no doubt were filmed on site. And finally the view from Ah Jong's window shows the front of the church roof. 

View looking up from Kau Yan Church

Kau Yan Church again from the apartment

The Killer - Chow Yun Fat (1989) - Hennessy Road, Causeway Bay

Back to Causeway Bay and this time we're the oposite end of Yee Wo Street as Detective Lee chases the bad guy onto a tram.