Kowloon Walled City
http://www.klnwcity.org
Hi all,
I found the existence of the Kowloon Walled City and was amazed and intrigued immediately. I did lots of searches on the web and found this site to. Great thread and great pictures to of which some I haven’t encountered before.
I would like to contribute to this forum thread as well and will add some info not posted here before.
Floor map
Here is the map of Kowloon Walled City of 1987. Its only the floorplan.
taken from:
my city of darkness
Book
As posted various times the best public collection of information on the KWC to date is the book City of Darkness by Greg Girard (Pictures) and Ian Lambot (Text) published by
www.watermarkpublications. Unfortunatly the site does not allow to buy the book from there anymore so only Amazone saves us.
Greg Girard is still active as photographer and has a website which show pictures of KWC not seen elsewhere yet. Check it out!!!
http://www.greggirard.com
Here is the site of the japanese expedition just after the city had abandonned/cleared and before it was taken down.
It was posted here before but if you haven't seen it yet please take a look, some new pics plus info on the Scent of Kowloon Walled City ; Chungking House.
site
Links
more links (maybe some are familiar, but can't harm to post them):
a)
http://bloglikeyougiveadamn.blogspot.com
b) A movie with scenes of KWC just after left abandoning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_S...ming_locations
c)
and-you-think-youre-cramped site
d) The
klnwcity.org intro page with the meeting on the KWC future. Map can also be found here.
From the same site
historic pictures are presented such as
(interior view KWC)
and
This link has been posted before but for those who missed it its worthwhile to check the pics,
klick here.
Front page picture is
Btw, @ molsonexport, some of the pics on first page of thread are gone? Can you post them again
.
Movies on KWC
I don't remember this youtube video on this thread so it mght be new here, dunno.
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http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=v5hk5oxj5uM
Other vidoe's have been posted already such as the one with the hidden shaking camera and the one from the movie Bloodsport with Belgique actor Jean Claude van Damme.
Here is a nice one from the Chungking Mansion, (small KWC)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owf7mHiTS4Q
I have read somewhere that KWC is also filmed in an Episode of Star Trek, deep space nine, episode One man Bashir (season 4, episode 9, production 482). I haven't checked it yet but maybe someone else knows?
Documentary (48 min) on KWC: In Search of the Dragon's Tale
For the rest, a 48 minutes documentairy called
In Search of the Dragon's Tale has been made in the beginning of the 90's and went in premiere Hong Kong Arts Centre on 31 August, 1997.
It received a price, it was Winner of The Gold Award (Documentaries) at the Hong Kong Independent Short Films and Video Awards 1997.
The film was produced by See Wan Kei & Haymann Lau and has been aired several times on TV. Here is a review taken from
here.
Review Summary
This documentary takes a look inside the Walled City of Kowloon in Hong Kong. Known for being a seedy, sleazy city, this town underwent many changes since 1992, when a political agreement between China and Britain led to the destruction of Kowloon, leaving most of its 40,000 residents homeless, especially the elderly and poor. Street musician Maurice Chan, who was raised in Kowloon, takes the viewer behind the history and mystique of this former city and shows the status of the uprooted residents now. Through never-before-seen footage and photographs, Chan shows the state of Hong Kong. He talks about his own personal experiences and also interviews some former Kowloon residents who are now fighting homelessness and extreme poverty. ~ Cecilia Cygnar, All Movie Guide
I have searched the web to find this material for days but unfortunatly unsuccessfully. The only think I could find are these sites:
The original site of the docu with the
script of the film still exist however the links and email seem not to work anymore. The site is also very old (1997).
http://members.tripod.com/~dragon/index.html.
This site is actually also the site of the production company so the probably set up there own producing company while shooting/editing the docu. Or they did it before, don't know.
Here is another site about the docu with some info on the producers with pics. Here I found that See Wan-kei wasn't a native chinese but western and later I found that his western name is Stuart M. Rankin. Often when people stay in China for a long time/ have many chinese friends they take a chinese name substitute for the time being. I did it also for fun when I took chinese lessons here in the netherlands. My teacher was a woman from Bejing. She told me that it was common.
Anyway, the email address of Haymann Lau on the site above doesn't work so that's another dead end. What I did find is that Stuart M. Rankin has a facebook page, so maybe I am gonna bother him soon with my questions
.
Well this it, my contribution to the thread, with some information already known here, but also some new stuff I hope. Please if anyone has info on documentaries on KWC pls post!!!!
Lets keep this thread alive.
What I actually still mis is where KWC was located with respect to the Kai Tai Airport. Maybe some can post a pic?
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