Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Riviera Ice Chalet, Tsuen Wan

The ice rink that Lo's daughter takes Fu to, to try and pick his brain, was the Riviera Ice Chalet located on 3/F of Riviera Plaza in Tsuen Wan. Sadly the place closed down circa 2012 and it looks like the whole mall was closed down the year after. The mall is attached to a large residential development (Riviera Gardens) and due to its difficult-to-reach location failed to attract anyone other than nearby residents. The structure is still there but apparently now empty. Although it seems that the mall owners are in talks with international schools about turning it into the Hong Kong branch of a western private fee-paying school. Time will tell. It seems though that since then it has appeared in a couple of movies including Donnie Yen's Raging Fire. Perhaps I will try and get a copy to see at some point.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Trademart Drive, Kowloon Bay

After dropping off Fu at Po Kong Village Road, Lo's daughter then drops Lo off at Trademart Drive in Kowloon Bay. The large warehouse at the back is HSBC's Main Treasury building, although I have no idea what it is used for - perhaps storage of old/new currency and other valuables/archives etc? If you know, please feel free to post a comment.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Po Kong Village Road, Diamond Hill

Fu is dropped off by the side of a road by Lo's daughter (Gigi Leung). You can just make out the name "Po Kong Village" on the sign on the wall behind. This is Po Kong Village Road, although the place that is signposted is now known as simply Po Kong Village Road Sports Centre. This is a stone's throw from a rather elusive location someone (sadly anonymous) found for me a while back.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Tai Wai Joyful Town, Tai Wai

Previously known as 青龍水上樂園, and later as Tai Wai Joyful Town (大圍歡樂城), this place was still around when I made my first trip to Hong Kong in 1995. You could see the large wheel and waterslide from the KCR train as it passed by Tai Wai. Although I seem to remember that by 1995 the waterslide had closed and was left to rot. Anyway, the whole thing was eventually closed down to make way for the extension to Tai Wai Station that would encompass the newly built Ma On Shan Line (since joined to the West Rail and renamed the Tuen Ma Line). It now has a monstrosity called The Pavilia built above it.

This is the location where Lo takes Fu for his first proper "hit", but having inadvertantly befriended the target's young son, has second thoughts and ends up protecting the man he was supposed to kill. The buildings in the background of image 3 belong to Man Lai Court.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Bailey Street, Hung Hom

I didn't post this one when I should have because it was quite difficult to track down. Just after Fu loses his $5 coin and it rolls down the hill from the Tung Tai Supermarket, he manages to catch up with it just before a nearby beggar snags it for his collection tin. This was actually filmed all the way over in Kowloon on Bailey Street. The brown-tile building with the "Midland Realty" office in the background is the lower levels/podium of Bailey Garden. That's quite a roll for that little $5 coin. We were last in this vicinity about a year ago for The Big Game.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Lung Mun Restaurant, Johnston Road

This place was quite famous for its dim sum at one point. It even has its own entry over on Gwulo.com. I did actually make it here before it closed, on the recommendation of a friend, but spent the whole meal time dodging big flakees of mould that were falling down onto our table from the aircon overhead, and then the waiter tried to overcharge us for the food we had ordered. I guess they just gave zero effs once they knew they were closing down. The place closed at the end of 2009.  The building was subsequently knocked down and replaced by a high rise of serviced apartments called "Chi Residences". You can see the exterior of the old restaurant in this shot from Bloodsport.

In the film, this is where Lo takes Fu for some food while he tries to track down the mysterious "Uncle Leung". 

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Happy Court, Man Fuk Road

Lo's apartment is located in Happy Court in Homantin. Just around the corner from Bruce Lee's old apartment at Sunlight Garden in fact. I'm fairly certain the interior and exteriors were filmed at this location, although whichever apartment was being used has since been renovated and the stained glass juliet balcony windows and iron railings have been removed.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - P.K. Cafe, 93 Ma Tau Kok Road

Lo is keen to take on Fu as his gun-for-hire and takes him to a local cafe to test him out. He starts trouble by calling a obnoxious female patron a 八婆 (bak por - basically the Cantonese for "bitch") and then leaves Fu to sort out the mess he has just created. Funnily enough, PK (the name of the cafe) is also Cantonese shorthand for 仆街 (puk gaai), which literally means to "fall in the street" but also means "bastard" in Cantonese.

Anyway, it was a real place and its identification is a good example of how weird my memory can be sometimes. The iron window bars rang a bell in my head from years ago when I was looking up a Knock Off location and I remember visiting this location and seeing the same design. Lo-and-behold, this cafe was indeed the same place I remembered. Although it closed down many years ago and has since been renovated into a trendier, modern bar, the shop next door still appears to have the same window grills.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - New Lucky House, Yau Ma Tei

Fu is shacked up with a bunch of other killers-for-hire in what appears to be New Lucky House in Yau Ma Tei. At least that is where the "Hitton Inn" is still located today. This building was recently in the news because of several hundred fire compliance orders that had been ignored by the building's owners and the Buildings Department - and the inevitable fire occurred in April this year (2024), killing 5 people and injuring around 40.

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - Tung Tai Supermarket, Queen's Road West

We are first introduced to Fu (Jet Li) as he buys groceries from a local store and realises the cashier has short-changed him. The shop used for filming looks to be still around - quite an achievement given the current economic climate of Hong Kong - and is the Tung Tai Supermarket located at 428-432 Queen's Road West.