Wong Kar Wai's Hong Chung King Kong Express (part 3)....

A typical Shaky Cam WKW tribute....

Finally we're going to cover the Mid-Levels escalators - more info. on them here - which feature in the scenes concerning Cop 663 (Tony Leung)'s apartment.

Cop 663 takes the elevator (from CE).

Had Agent Rob not visited The Peak that afternoon then it's unlikely he would have ventured this far - by chance these elevators were mentioned on a scenic commentary and so his interest was, er, piqued, um....

Mosque Street.

Makes sense to start our trip at the top(-ish) of the elevators, seeing as that's the daytime direction they just so happened to be travelling in. Most of the street locations are "near enough", our Agent piecing them together from detective work, often identifying where the photos were taken by means of searching for the legible business names online....

It's all downhill from 18:00....

From Princes Terrace(?) down Shelley towards Elgin St.

On Shelley Street before Elgin Street intersection.

From Caine looking down Shelley towards Elgin St.

Around this point we must have stopped off for a welcome (and contented) swill in Soho, as quite suddenly darkness is upon us....

Looking S/W on to Wellington Street.

Looking N/W on to Stanley Street.

Cochrane St looking S/W (back) into Central, parallel to elevators.

Looking S/E on to Queen's Road.

The market scenes in the fillum seem to have been shot at the Graham Street Market - another area set for redevelopment? - which at I guess I assumed was Stanley Street above. To add to the confusion Graham Street seems to be called Gage Street on all the maps too....

Graham Street Market (from CE).

Here's the maps covering the elevators, running in the same order as the photos were taken (kind of bearing in mind you're travelling up and off to the right at 45 degrees, each map joining the next at the bottom l/h corner and finishing at the top r/h)....

Mosque thru to Elgin Street.

Elgin thru to Hollywood Street.

Hollywood Street thru to Queen's Road.

Queen's Road thru to Des Voeux Road.

Other handy links to check out on the subject are here and here - the former, the Wong Kar Wai forums was essential in scoping out the various locations in situ, and the latter, White City Cinema, proved a handy reference point once our Agent had his feet planted firmly back on British soil....

And that is that. Time to dust that last Martini and swagger off into a suitably blurry sunset....

Inevitable really....