Kowloon Walled City (bloodsport)

[stiqman]

anybody know what he is saying in chinese?

[YoungKoolness17]

that old shit ugly muthu

[MtEdeNLov3R]

Oh in black ops i wish that the Woods dude could say to the UK guy Ok USA

[capyle1981]

"Ok USA!"

I guess they didn't have the heart to tell him that the white dude was from Belgium.

[HLM190586]

@capyle1981

Dude we all know he is Belgian but in this film, his character is American.

[capyle1981]

@HLM190586

That was the joke, dude.

[starworshipper]

@capyle1981

Yeah right.. If it was, than it was a bad joke dude

[capyle1981]

@starworshipper Yeah, you got me. It wasn't a joke. I throughly believed this movie was about a Belgian being carted around Hong Kong while everyone assumes he's an American. It was in no way an easy and common joke about Jean Claude Van Damme's habit of playing Americans while never once affecting anything resembling an American accent. Furthermore, I just cannot fathom why everyone in "True Lies" believe the Austrian bodybuilder is a US spy. You have exposed my deep dark secret, sir.

[ChineseCommando]

That is a pretty realistic depiction of the city's insides, but too empty.

[Unbreak96]

guys this place is really creepy

[Dostape]

@Unbreak96

its just the music sheep

[aura113]

for my thesis. thanks!

[endfx]

imagine how awesome it would be if you could walk the streets of that city. too sick

[loretto5]

Wow I can't imagine how scary this place is.

[oclandestin]

"OK USA" ... I doubt that very much. That has to be one of the most unlikely film lines and welcomes, written to flatter a mainly American audience I'm guessing.

[scroutus]

OK U.S.A.!!!!

[bitterkayne]

what if a fire happened or an earthquake? wow.... that's a really scary thought.

[devilhunterred]

@bitterkayne There's no earthquake in HK. A fire would be another matter, but amazingly to my knowledge there has never been any major fire that broke out in the city.

[NocnyGracz]

super scene

[dimmub69]

fuckin love this movie!! AMERIKA A- OKAY!

[devious222]

i must have watched this movie 20 times when i was a kid.. oddly i don't remember any of this lol.

[mcbus]

ok~ USA!~

[lunkprab]

Thanks for posting this

[RobertsDigital]

The mysterious Kowloon city was demolished in 1993. It was a city for harlots,opium,drugs,triads,the poor. It was so packed that anyone could walk on the rooftop on these buildings. People were not allowed to go in there with video cameras those who made the bloodspot movie were given permission for it.

I keep wondering after this city was demolished where did they carry all the city junk and rubble to? On its place today stands a beautiful park with a temple and a few mounuments.

[RobertsDigital]

They may have built a musem somewhere in that place with pictures of what that place looked like before 1993. Keeping historical records & and mounuments of a particular location can be very important.

If you travelled to Hong Kong today you will never believe that such an adventurous place existed before 1993. Thanks for the bloodsport movie but there is a video somewhere here on youtube about a guy who actually filmed the place in 1990. Reserved for the people of the future...

[homerbear46]

LOL

I think all the "roof-dwellers" moved their "junk" to build new homes on the roofs of ShamShuiPo

where the last few still remain(the City is getting rid of them)I had a buddy that had a family flat in one of them, to get to it you had to cross a footbridge over a wide alley-way with a 14fl drop

the bridge (like everything else up there) was built out of junk

("lap-sap")

nowadays the roughest parts of HK are all in the New Territories "new Towns" like TaiPo, SheungShui and (worst) YeunLong

[homerbear46]

PS...I think there is STILL a pretty good and big roof -junk town behind "Apilu Gi" in Sham Shui Po.(it was still there 2 years ago)

I'll see if my buddy wan't to go up there and I'll make a video.

I'm not going on my own...I'm not as scared of the "bad people" as I am of the junk bridges and railings and crap.

[sinshixxi]

IT'S TIME TO PROTECT YOUR NUTS GUYS

[applesweeter]

It looks like a bunker. A goog place for wall game.

[drdos4]

NO JOKE MAN

[haaklung]

yeah Van Dam!

[haaklung]

Triads place

[Uatarreu]

OKAY USA!!

[1988rogers]

What does it look like now?

[andrew3656]

place got torn down in 1993.

[KowloonWalledCity]

it's now a park, with little evidence of what was once there

[woulders]

its a park

[UnusuallyLargeCrab]

IT IS TIME TO PROTECT YOUR NUTS.

[poseidonrocks123]

2:04

thats terrifying..

[nekoroms]

yeh only one camera did enter kowloon for longer time when it was populated and that photobook is scary as hell (and hard to find but i managed to find one)

[baleheads]

OK USA!

[KenshinXSlayer]

Shenmue II!

[keffmuffeboy]

No Joke Man

[KowloonWalledCity]

film made in 1988, Walled City demolished in 1993

[randall642]

This movie was made in 1988, so it isn't actually it, but it's a damn good recreation: heres a youtube video where someone apparently is walking around with a hidden camera in a bag: watch?v=OSnvqBhWUOc

it's just like this, hes walking through the sunlit part of the city, then goes around a corner and enters pitch black alleys lit by flourescent lights. he doesn't stay in them for very long tho.

[burnthewitch]

It's not a recreation. It was filmed 5 years before they tore it down.

[erana19]

Kickass data centre.

[Jeremysgonecrazy]

Wow, Kinda cool,

[AClockworkJerry]

it kinda feels like Blade Runner in some shots of dark alleys.

pretty cool.

[koergman]

@AClockworkJerry

Good point! The maker of Blade Runner were inspired by the Walled City. There is a small comment on that in the three hour documentation 'Dangerous Days', which comes with special editions of this movie (the blu-ray version for example).

[wd40isgreat]

@koergman Yea there are lots of places in Hong, that are very cyberpunkish.

[groovy4]

OKAY USA!

friggin CLASSIC!

[justinjsaley]

I mean the real city area of Hong Kong, not the special administration region of Hong Kong which includes all of its territory.

[MalcolmRandall]

Damn, and you thought Cabrini Green was a fucked-up place....

[electrifizzle]

wow this place is just fascinating...it competely reminds me of this fantasy book I read once...

[youtubasoarus]

Just a fascinating environment. Looks very comfortable if you can shed western inhibitions.

[meryflame]

the video stops all the time.can u send me?? it`s for a school-job thanhs!!

[joelfcocd]

wow can u believe this city was almost completely illuminated just by lamps as not even sunlight could pass?

[justinjsaley]

Yes, that's right, you couldn't see the sun once you went in. Even the Hong Kong police didn't want to go in there. Now it is gone, there was a big fire and in the 1990's what was left was torn down. Today it is a park to memoralize The Walled City, the most densly populated place ever to exist on Earth.

[mediumsteve]

they decided to tear it down before your supposed fire.

[juntao3d]

No, thats wrong. Hashima Island was the most desly populated place worlwide. Its population density was 835 people per hectare (83,500 people/km^2) for the whole island, or 1,391 per hectare (139,100 people/km^2) for the residential district.

[N3me2is]

but Kowloon Walled City has 1.900.000 people/km²

[hsmarginal]

juntao3d,

kowloon walled city had 1.900.000 people/km², so you're not even close with that mate.

[justinjsaley]

Juntao, in 1987 before the Walled City was taken down, its population density was 1,923,077 people per square kilometre. Actually today, there are dozens of areas in Hong Kong that have a higher population density than 139,100 people per square km. This is why being from Canada, I find it so tough to survive here in Hong Kong.

[juntao3d]

wikipedia that shit then mate. Wikipedia says Hashima Islands was the most desnly populate place. I trust wiki more than I could ever trust some random youtube dude.

[justinjsaley]

Juntao3d, I agree with you that you should trust wiki more than some random youtube dude, that's good advice.  I have checked out wiki. It does say what you said, but it must mean a completely definable place such as an island, province, or country. I assure you that no less than 7 areas of the city of Hong Kong have a population density higher than that, wiki 'Mong Kok'. I bet Hong Kong itself, has a population density of over 200,000. By the way, I have written many articles for Wiki.

[juntao3d]

Taken directly from wiki: n 1959, its population density was 835 people per hectare (83,500 people/km^2) for the whole island, or 1,391 per hectare (139,100 people/km^2) for the residential district, the highest population density ever recorded worldwide

[justinjsaley]

I just copy and pasted this info about the Walled City directly from Widipedia. 'it had 50,000 inhabitants on 0.026 km², and therefore a very high population density of 1,923,077/km².' Search 'Walled City Kowloon' if you don't believe me. Remember that Wikipedia is the most inaccurate major Encyclopedia in the world. It has to be if they let people like me write it!

[KowloonWalledCity]

Thanks for your comments on the video. As others have said, if you wiki Mong Kok you will see it is the world's most densely populated place. Also, if you wiki Ap Lei Chau (an island very near Hong Kong Island)you will see that there is the most densely populated island. :)

[KowloonWalledCity]

Oh, I see the confusion. Hashima Island has the highest ever population density for an island, Ap Lei Chau has the current highest. Over places in Hong Kong, including the Walled City & Mong Kok, have/had much a great population density but they are not islands.

[juntao3d]

Well I'm glad thats cleard up. :P

[lynxe22]

jajja q fuerte un camion de san miguel en hong kong no sabia que fuera tan internacional xD

[AI009]

OMG. Look at all those electric cables. Thank god there weren't any major short circuits otherwise..

[kdkjrf]

walled city would make a great setting for a monster or zombie movie.

[chwuwd]

I love that idea however it is not original. Japan had used that setting in many horror films, one of the prized each is Kakurenbo, appears in quite a lot of horror games too, the most obvious one is Kowloon's Gate.

[DogyKane]

@kdkjrf there is one horror movie which is inspired by this place, name is 're-cycle', but the CGI is shit and the plot is a bit silly, relatively old hong kong film

[wd40isgreat]

@kdkjrf

they have lots of these places in hong Kong still. like abandoned houses on Lamma Island.

[emersonfans]

woooo~ never heard of such nice record of the walled city~

[malleymyster]

was the kowloon district a tourist center, or the ghetto of hong kong (the way, say, compton is to LA) i know the walled city was taken down in the early 90's, but the neighboring buildings look like the ones in hard boiled and infernal affairs.

[ShinobiShaw]

It was essentially a ghetto...Kowloon itself (at least many of its parts) can be said to be Hong Kong's gheto.

[ShinobiShaw]

During the time the was shot, the Walled City was being slowly evacuated..so the Triads and the corruption were gone by now.

Ironic that the Walled City managed to be community towards the end years.

The height of the city seems to be the late 70's and early 80's..that's when it was most populated and at it's peak in corruption.

[screamerican56]

OK USA! great!

[happysmileday]

Sure the walled city had triads/drugs/brothels but think most people there were nice.

[ArimaVII]

Amazin Kowloon!!

[imoyakichan]

that is incredible...

[seniorseniorman]

dam i want to study more about the walled city T_T Kinda wish they left the shell undemolished

[bubaslubas]

Check Wikipedia.

[Chunfei]

OKEY YESEY!

[fitzx]

OK USA

[EVLCOP]

Its time to protect your nuts guys..

[ztshocker]

i shit on my asshole!

[lando8000]

kowloon was so legit!!!!!!!!!!!! was this really shot in the walled city?