Friday, August 11, 2023

Police Story 2 - Jackie Chan (1988) - Po Hang Lane, Tsz Wan Shan

Many thanks to an anonymous commentator who has identified a rather difficult location for Police Story 2 that I figured would take months to track down (I do a lot of these locations on the fly rather than have a big back log of places to post, so if I don't get them within a few days they tend to get forgotten about until I have time to go back and try again).

The scene is the start of the police's surveillance of John Cheung's bad guy. He leaves a building on a large set up steps between a couple of buildings as the covert cop van pulls up and starts to take pictures of him. The immediate next scene is this one (the same one where anon commented) where Cheung walks down some steps in TST.

Anyway, if you follow the link to that post you'll see the initial scene below is located on Po Hang Lane (蒲蘅里) in Tsz Wan Shan. I've actually walk ed past this location on multiple occasions because I used to take my kids to the cycle track in Po Kong Village Park on the opposite side of Po Kong Village Road. Looking at Streetview, the place hasn't changed at all other than the buildings getting a new lick of paint.

Anyway, a big thanks to anon for saving me several weeks of tedious trawling through the map.

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Flash Point - Donnie Yen (2007) - Nam Sang Wai, Yuen Long

The gang have taken Wilson and his girlfriend captive in a remote location and Ma takes the newly captured older brother (Ray Lui) to exchange hims for them. The remote location is of course the Nam Sang Wai wetlands just north of Yuen Long. This place has been used plenty in both local and overseas productions. I wonder how long it will stay this undeveloped though as developers on both sides of the border have been eyeing this area up for redevelopment for years. According to Dan Thomas' old (and sadly neglected) Hong Kong on Film blog, the old house was a proper relic and not just built for the movie. The last time Streetview was updated in this location was 2015 and the house was still standing, but quite a lot has happened in Hong Kong since then so there's no guarantee it's still there now. 

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Flash Point - Donnie Yen (2007) - North Kowloon Magistracy, Shek Kip Mei

The elder brother (played by Ray Lui) is due in court at the North Kowloon Magistracy and it is also outside here where Ma decides to beat him up. This place was built in 1960 and is in a similar style to several other remaining magistracy buildings of the same era. It closed as a legal building in 2005 (hence why it could be used in the film) and was later part of the Govt's adaptive reuse project and leased to the Savannah College and Art & Design (SCAD) for several years. SCAD abruptly closed down in 2020 - just after the start of the pandemic - and pulled completely out of Hong Kong leaving quite a lot of students in the lurch. 

Anyway, the building is still standing, albeit now empty, and I'm not sure of any plans to lease it to a new user. I live not far from here in fact and walk past it most days, so the bottom image is one I snapped the other day.

The Magistracy, snapped by me July 2023

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Flash Point - Donnie Yen (2007) - Eastern Street, Sai Ying Pun

Despite making a rather long detour over to Glenealy, the foot chase returns to Sai Ying Pun as the pair run down Eastern Street - right next to the previously mentioned Dental Hospital. The top image shows the corner with High Street.

Monday, August 7, 2023

Flash Point - Donnie Yen (2007) - Glenealy, Central

After the attempt on Wilson's life by Tiger, Ma chases him out of the hospital. The large slope they run down is located at the top of Glenealy in Central. The gate posts behind the actor in the third image mark one of the entrances to the Zoological and Botanical Gardens.

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Flash Point - Donnie Yen (2007) - The Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Sai Ying Pun

Even though the establishing shots for Wilson's hospital stay involved the St Teresa's Hospital in Kowloon, according to the film credits, the hospital scenes were in fact filmed at the Prince Philip Dental Hospital over on Hong Kong Island. The capture below appears to have been filmed in the basement carpark.

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Flash Point - Donnie Yen (2007) - St Teresa's Hospital, Prince Edward Road

We were here just a few posts (and 50+ years) ago. The original building has long since gone and replaced by a much larger complex. This is the hospital Wilson is supposedly taken to following his accident. The caption in Chinese on the screen capture says "3 months later".

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Flash Point - Donnie Yen (2007) - Stadium Path, So Kon Po

The Vietnamese gang decide to take out all of their rivals, starting with Sam (Ben Lam) who is located at Hong Kong Stadium. The scene starts with Wilson (Louis Koo) driving Tiger (Xing Yu) to the west gate via Eastern Hospital Road in front of the stadium before turning into Stadium Path and stopping in front of the West gate.