Kowloon Walled City documentary (Part 1/4) + english subtitles

[4Moonshield4]

I just don't understand. Are the Chinese human? How can they live like this and...not complain??

People need light. People can't do the same repetitive task over and over and over for 12+ hours a day 7 days a week forever and then not kill themselves eventually. Do they just not have a choice? I imagine there are better solutions, opportunities out there to live a life just a BIT more humanely.

[weiranxyz]

mensch!!!Liebe Deutschen,die sind wirklich super geil.Die hatten so ein Film gedehrt.

[TheBlackPancake]

yess, just followed a link and... german! me understandz it!

[SIRchopski]

wooooww.... great place to film and take photos

[Dylan20121]

i don't know why i turned the sound up, i can't even speak german

[amiiiina]

Shenmue sent me here.

[hoelk]

Great job but any way to get this without subtitles?

[tuschman168]

@hoelk watch?v=fbsPEVbcsXc

[TROLLERSDELIGHT]

>MOVE TO KOWLOON

>NEVER WASH HANDS

>fuckyea.jpg

[Ld0ttx3]

Like this if tumblr sent you here ;)

[marypiscore]

It would've been so cool to film a movie here

[acarlisl]

This will be America in twenty years if things don't change.

[mrwigg1es]

Extremely interesting. Thank you for posting!

[isawrluna]

this is just

so

perfect

It were drawings of landscapes and buildings like this that made me get into architecture and brutalism and now I find out that there was a city like that

and it was demolished :/

[o3oBARTo3o]

:< this documentary makes us Hong Kong people seem like robotic,cheap assholes

[looserslam]

It reminds me of something out of a Cyberpunk fantasy...

[SinDawg030]

Christ, its almost like something out of noir sci fi. If I could visit it I would say "The Kowloon Walled City. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious"

[kk44838]

@amoza17 Bops!

[merlinbbcs4rox]

Thanks i needed this for my essay

[ARIQULE77]

i'm here because of shenmue 2

[AdventuresofJavi]

Thank You Thank You Thank You for uploading this with subtitles :D

[Icix1]

it's kinda mirrors traditional village life, where there were a few specialty tradesman. The fishmonger, the breakmaker etc. Something we've definitely lost in the western world.

[jackjude]

Tuschman168, cheers for uploading!! :)

[Sarahmint]

What does it smell like? I imagine not a nice one.

[TheChosenOneDR]

@amoza17 lol so this is where Treyarch got it from!

[walker1054]

@amoza17 you can see when and where it got views from by clicking the buttons next to the view count

[endlosmacht]

This is better than any documentary that you would see on Discovery channel or the History channel. Thanks tuschman168 for posting

[themangodess]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUBTITLES THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU WHY AREN'T YOU KING OF THE PLANET????

[pumlin1]

ANTS

[kaushiksays]

This is so much like "Dharavi" in Mumbai, India

[addnine2]

The cockroach on the noodles bread.. ew

[imDarkensei]

I don't know, seem like a pretty unique way of living (minus all the poverty of course), destroying it was the equivalent of destroying a great pyramid.

[blacklabel3980]

I wonder what the mortgage rates are for a place like this

[Wezuhley]

Texas... 2030.

[GrigorijRasputin]

why they have taken it down, it's most wonderful place built by human i've ever seen, total cyberpunk

[kamikaz330]

NOOLEEESSSS!!!! (i love 'em..)

[gv105468]

amazing video thnx for uploading this 

[VitalMusic217]

I can´t believe this shit! This is so cyberpunk!! 

[Frequent2001]

they closed down the walled city, flatened most of it and evicted everyone.. now in hong kong you can rent a fucking cage if you are poor, its basically a cage, like a dog cage, and people pay like 1$ a day to live there.. you just have enough space to get in to sleep.. and im not even kidding, you can find some information about it on youtube..

[HadaMelusina]

i couldn't find many pics on internet about the city but i found this video ^_^ thanks for it!

[signaturemover]

their streets are tunnels. holy shit. how about this- this seems a little tyrannic, but how about break all the buildings that are covering the streets, and the houses surrounding them?

[ChipsALaChocolat]

this is very much like the modern version of the jungle by upton sinclair, lol.....sad this existed that close to this year. and probably something like it still does :(

[FieryPhoenix7]

Thank you so much for the subtitles!

[Graywolf116]

Holy cow. This looks like something out of a video game or some dystopian science fiction novel or movie. Made me think of the level Omega on Mass Effect 2. thing is though.. this is actually real... 0_o

God Bless America.

[DogyKane]

evict people and leave the walled city as a zombie theme museum, im sure it could attract a lot more tourists/money than a damn green park!

[raffi3o3]

Thumbs up if you came here because of SHENMUE II

[Necessarism]

MACHINMA SENT ME HERE

[WaterMedia]

This is a wonderful documentary. Thank you for sharing this for others to have a chance to learn.

[baby815]

I live near the walled city and the closes I got was a classmate of my elder Sid lived in the walled city, which we are forbid to go. Back to comment the show, love the record of the walled city but not a fan for the narrator. Feels like more than a documentary cause it had a point of view and trying to imply something along the way.

[Ferrari1f430scuderia]

i born in hk and its our memory, i born in 1990's so i havent go there actually but its a bad place to live......sex, gambling and drugs........anyway i wonder i lived there (bad english :p)

[Mrxflex1]

thnx for the re-upload with subs mate

[tuschman168]

@amoza17 Don't hate me for this but I actually do have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not a gamer AT ALL. (First strike IS a game, right?) ;-) But I gotta say, a game where you can explore these areas does sound really cool. Even if it is just a shooter (Oh, I'm gonna take flak for that one).

[freestylepigeon]

@tuschman168 maybe you should wear a flak jacket ;)

[forumpaul]

@tuschman168 its a map on call of duty

[kk44838]

@tuschman168 Black ops

[LOLWAAHH]

:D best doc I've found about Kowloon. I got interested from cod

First strike, this city is amazing. Can't believe they demo'd it, they should have at least left a museum....

[tuschman168]

@LOLWAAHH Well, the chinese government hasn't exactly a good track record when it comes to preserving historically relevant items or places. But I think it got better in recent years. User MrMeh1970 was there and says there are at least a few displays there now reminding people of the past. You can read his/her comment under part four of this documentary.

[twkarp]

@tuschman168 The British were still governing HK when the Walled City was brought down.

[akaMouse]

@tuschman168 Actually Kowloon was an enclave of the PRC that they had lost control of. It was demolished by Hong Kong authorities which was completely separate from the mainland at the time (and pretty much still is)

[Adelphus]

@tuschman168 Up until 1999 Hong Kong was under British rule so you can't blame them for this one. It's still a historical loss none the less.

[tuschman168]

@Adelphus Several have now told me so. But wasn't the whole point that the walled city was under nobody's rule. Neither the chinese nor the british wanted to do anything about it even though both wouldn't have minded if the other one took action. Wikipedia is really confusing on this issue and I don't know other sources on the subject.

[djunior874]

@tuschman168 type this after typing : /2008/07/06/20-abandoned-citie­s-and-towns/

[djunior874]

@djunior874 (type that after the site weburbanist)

[ajaku]

@tuschman168 just look at the sources linked on the wiki entry...much more reliable way to get info anyway

[EnhancedNation]

@tuschman168 Finding someone that lives in Hong Kong would really help ;) I do but i dont really know much about the history of Hong Kong

[HLM190586]

@LOLWAAHH

i fell sad for you only knowing this place from a video game...

[PurpleRaam]

@LOLWAAHH This not Kowloon. This is Kowloon Walled City. The Kowloon in cod is not this.

[manusdextra]

@LOLWAAHH Turning something like this into a museum means maintaining it, and I can imagine that would cost a shitload of money.

[bloodymarie1987]

@LOLWAAHH

Firstly, I thought so too. I am currently living in Kowloon and would have loved to see parts of it. But from what I heard it was not possible because one house leaned against the other. Hence, if you tear down one of them everything will fall apart. Nowadays, there is the "Kowloon Walled City Park" which provides lots of information and a mini-expo about how it used to be.

[VNVgirl]

this place completely fascinates me... it seems almost unreal... thank you for the documentary and it being with english subtitles :)

[AnUUb1s]

WITHOUT LAWS AND POLICE......finally they can make illegal....... NOODLES !!!

[whattheheck1000]

@AnUUb1s I love how this city was a largely moral and wholesome place, without the institution of organized law. I'm not ripping on organized law (it keeps us safe) but this city really worked well for how tightly packed and run-down looking it was.

March 14, 2011 4:57 am

[Frequent2001]

@AnUUb1s there was some laws and rules in the walled city, it was the underworld rules.. set by the triads.

[Germancest]

@AnUUb1s Omg i thought you were joking until I saw the noddles xD

[twodice416]

THANK YOU for the subtitles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been dying to see this for years, after I once saw it back in my country, when I was little and was soooo amazed and terrified that I till this day carried the memory of the walled city.. thank you

[tongvaboy]

That mini noodle factory will bring me nightmares for years to come.

[marcomonty14]

thanks for subs really

[marcomonty14]

thanks for subs really

[amyanubis]

I very much appreciate this being uploaded. A fasinating documentary!

[slimshogun]

thanks for posting this with subs!!!1

[Garak1]

thx for the upload! Love the doc!

[VertigaDesignMEDIA]

It is not the bad qualities, but the good qualities of these alien races that make them so dangerous to us. It is their inexhaustible energy, their power of applying themselves to new tasks, their endurance and low standard of living that make them such competitors.

[statekjoe]

Thanks for subtitles great documentary.

[eeemilicious]

i lived in hong kong for several years as a kid.. and i am pretty sure they tore these down a long time ago!

[BennyHarassi]

Wow this really exists??? I was watching Street Fighter 2 (The animated movie) on Netflix the other day and this city was in it filled with a load of bad guys for Ryu and Ken to fight.......

[gooddeath]

People like to gawk at how horrible living conditions are here, but it extremely naive to think that nations can turn from dirt poor agrarian countries to first-world industrialized nations over-night. ALL of China's problems are the same exact ones that Europe faced during industrialization. Overall, industrialization is a good thing. Obviously lives are not perfect now, but in 50 years you won't even recognize China.

[Remui]

I'd really appreciate a version without the subs. :3

[tuschman168]

@Remui Aw, come on! Now you're just yanking my chain! ;)

[BurritoBazooka]

@Remui /watch?v=fbsPEVbcsXc

[Remui]

@BurritoBazooka Many thanks

[Wi5eOne]

when the camera guys started walking down the long dark corridors all i can think about how it reminds me of the 1980's film blood sport when van dam was on his way to the kumite.

[masonkim7]

It's a miracle that no major fires broke out within the city.

[thegreatcerebral]

@masonkim7 IDK I feel like it would suffocate itself in such a confined space rather quickly. Or just put a bucket or two against the water walls and put it out quick!

[Seir]

@masonkim7 I think any fire would be smothered by the city itself because everything is so closely packed together. 

[SaiKamiKannon]

Devastatingly beautiful in it's depiction and presentation, this documentary displayed a place and way of life many think terrible but, for some reason the people who live and work in The Walled City have the air of ones who live all over the world; rich or extremely impoverished, people just want to make capital so they can continue living.

[gooddeath]

@SaiKamiKannon

Like it or not, this is how nations industrialize from extremely poor subsentence farming societies to industrialized nations. If you were to go to back to the United States or Europe during the industrial age, you would see conditions just as, if not more, horrendous than the ones shown.

And yet people still *willing* come over? Why?

Because of MONEY. They are poor by our standards, but their life quality is still superior to subsentence farming.

[hedes]

This looks like Gotham city

[johhnytrash]

This is the utopia the libertarians want.

[andrewl85]

@johhnytrash This is an example of anarchism, not libertarianism.

[johhnytrash]

@andrewl85 Nope, there are rules there. Rule #1, pay the protection money (why don't we call them taxes) All regulations and 'nanny state' legislation doesn't exist and The Mighty Free Market that Libertarians wank to is dictating things like working conditions, living conditions, building codes, everything. Do you want your Free market or what? Because this is what your Free Market leads to, comrade!

[boogerlab]

Wow, it's like minecraft in real life. Watch out for the griefers.

[reverendlovejoy]

the filmmaker is very untalented and stupid, but the subject is so interesting i had to watch it.

[tuschman168]

@reverendlovejoy Wanna elaborate on the "untalented and stupid"-part? 'Cause I don't see it (yet). Come on, you know you want to!

[dreamyraynbo]

Fascinating. Thank you so much for subtitling and sharing!

[KaraMurphee]

Great job! Go ahead and give yourself kudos! You most certainly deserve it! :-) Thank you so much!

[MinaMcKay]

Thank you to whomever subtitled this!

[RedFoxxworth]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUBTITLES THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

[TheDrHaze]

Thanks a lot for the subtitles

hopefully you can do the other parts too

[nagaempress]

Oh THANK YOU!!!!! for doing this! I love this place and have been WAITING for the subtitles for it! I look forward to seeing the other videos!

[MrSoupCan]

Thanks! I haven't found anyplace with the english subs for this. Any chance of making a .srt file? I have a digital copy of this but no subs.

[tuschman168]

@MrSoupCan You know, i was gonna make .srt instead of hardcoding it in the video but the software i use to create those files somehow stopped working. Maybe i'll get it to work again but in any case i will first finish the translations for the third and fourth part this way (with WMM, that stupid program). Incidentally you did not find the english subs because they did not exist up until now! Yea, that was all my doing! *boast* Oh, you already knew that. Never mind.

[vinnievincent85]

very interesting. will there be subs on the other parts to? thanx alot anyway for subbing this one!

[tuschman168]

@vinnievincent85 subs for the next part are half done. Just have to add them to the video.