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The
Kozo in Hong Kong Challenge:
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In the summer of 2004,
LoveHKFilm.com
friend extraordinaire Gray Carper went to Hong Kong
and took up the Kozo in Hong Kong Challenge.
His effort was so thorough that not only has he been
crowned the Winner of the Kozo in Hong Kong Challenge™,
but we've decided to use his exact commentary almost
verbatim, with minor picture captions from the LoveHKFilm.com
editorial staff. We might also butt in on occasion,
which you will find in the form of a dinky font like
this: Hey there! Try not to notice. |
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• That
restaurant from Moonlight Express
• From
the opening of A Better Tomorrow
• From
somewhere in the middle of A Better Tomorrow
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That restaurant
from
Moonlight
Express
This scene takes place in the Riental Restaurant,
a place which used to exist on the bayside stretch
of Stanley Market. Sadly, it is now abandoned
and cannot be entered....
From
the film >>
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Note
the metal-worked window style and you'll be
confident in the location.
Window
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<< Gray
Carper
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However! Katherine
and I have attempted to recreate the atmosphere
by using a restaurant with a similar view: El
Cid Caramar in Stanley's Murray House...
<< Gray
and Katherine (who we will assume is a friend
and not some frightened stranger) and the same
coastline from Moonlight Express. However,
Gray is sitting on the left, when he should
be sitting on the right. Also, Leslie Cheung
is better looking, but don't tell Gray we said
that.
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From the opening
of
A
Better Tomorrow
Chow Yun Fat's opening scene takes place right
in front of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Building...
"Might
as well smoke 'em if I got 'em..." >>
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...which is where
I am here!
<< A few
moments after this picture was taken, Gray was
arrested for having too colorful a shirt. Didn't
the Cultural Revolution teach him anything?
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From somewhere
in the middle of
A
Better Tomorrow
Later in the picture, members of the cast can
be seen waltzing out of the Sunning Plaza building
in Causeway Bay...
Jack
Nicholson exits the Staples Center >>
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....which you
can easily recognize here.
<< Shouldn't
people who work in a mirrored building have
figured out that sunglasses are absolutely essential?
If this scene in A Better Tomorrow has
a lesson then this is it.
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