Kowloon walled city 九龍城砦

[cotuzzTom]

Cửu LONG

[jellylovecat]

香港からこれと、タイガーバームガーデンが無くなったのはとても­残念。

[himitsunosallychan]

The modern miniature, if not equivalent, must doubtless be the ChungKing Mansions in TsimShaTsui. They say there are some residents from abroad that enjoy a certain kind of extraterritoriality inside the building complex.

Not much to experience in Mirador, but Chungking i would say is a must-visit (perhaps the only must-visit) for anyone interested in HK.

[TheJasonDR]

wow .... one spark and the whole place burns ..... also that british guy from black ops that was hiding in kowloon city ....is smart to hide there

[Survivorluvr3318]

I am currently writing a book about Kowloon Walled City. If you know anyone that lived there, I would love to interview them. Please contact me.

[ProChoiceJesus]

@Survivorluvr3318 Please do a Google search on "Jackie Pullinger" and/or "St. Stephen's Society." Jackie Pullinger lived, worked, and loved the people of the Walled City from 1966 until the day it was demolished. You will find few people with a broader, more intimate & detailed touch and feeling for what this place & it's people were really like. She has experienced firsthand the potential for good there, and the miraculous transformation of thousands of hopeless Walled City residents.

[zomgtehrei]

what an amazing place

it's a photographers dream

[babidaniella]

@zomgtehrei until u get robbed for ur cam

[zomgtehrei]

@babidaniella true that, still.

[wotar2]

Так у них там и пушки из Крепости Ковлун, прямо внутри зданий были ((:

[justinjsaley]

Tourist buses still go there to the park which I feel is the second best free attraction in Hong Kong. Still, it would have been fantastic it they would have kept at least part of this amazing place as a tourist attraction.

[RSArmazylS4]

lets play hide n seek!

[Tbone0086]

+1000 views after black ops came out with first strike

[SuperSharpboy]

@Tbone0086 We know this city already.Wtf is special about Black ops.?

[chantimothy]

@SuperSharpboy one mission in COD black ops is set in a place in HK resembling the kowloon walled city

[ghosttrain2066]

sorta cool place at night

[ghosttrain2066]

sorta cool place at night

[TheCunningAndFought]

I think it's kind of sad they tore it down, I mean, it was also a piece of history, it was fascinating, and somewhere were poorer people could actually live. It's also sad there's seemingly a lack of footage of it.

[kalalachu]

@TheCunningAndFought

It has to be torn down for the sake of those people. That wasn't a decent place to live at all. However thanks Japanese for getting those footage for us Hong Kong people.

[Conanfan12345]

My english teacher said this:

"If they hadn't torn down the city,today tourists would visit it instead of Times square and Sogo."

thumbs up if you agree.

[akallstar5]

im sorry, im sorry, but you guys realize the chinese propaganda instilled in this right? I mean at the end quote: the town tells the history and fate of hong kong. WTF? Obviously an attack on the capitalist hong kong system, and trying to make the claim that capitalism leads to economic collapse, when clearly this city was lawless and not under any government. Typical Chinese propaganda BS.

[devilhunterred]

@akallstar5 This documentary was made by Japanese, how is it Chinese propaganda BS?

[Fenderkicksass]

lol did fire ever break out?? Cause holy shit one fire would put that place to flames.

[insertclevernickname]

looks like a hot humid dirty hell.

[MrLemonyFresh]

Fascinating. I used this as inspiration in my belonging themed creative writing for school.

[AliasUndercover]

What an awesome place to go shopping...

[kaiwkc]

Had the Japanese documents also mentioned they torn down the real historical city wall of Kowloon City and exploded the nearby Song Emperor Terrance Stone stood there for nearly 1000 yrs during the Japanese Occupation of HK during 1941-1945.

[BrianHo1337]

@kaiwkc I know a bit of Japanese and I believed that the narrator mentioned about the city after World War 2. However as for the part where they imploded what's inside, I'm not sure

[kaiwkc]

@BrianHo1337 The demolition of the real city during the occupation is the fact. You can find on the web lots images before the occupation what it was like, and i can even find the photo showing the blasting of the Sung Terrance Stone in 1942 to make way for the airfield. Just because this documentary is about the city after WW2, they should also mention what was the city was like immediately after HK liberation and why it would be like this without the wall after WW2.

[castlevania78]

this place is the inspiration for every "dense" urban setting in futuristic movies, such as Akira, Blade Runner, and Ghost in the Shell.

[schizoafekt]

The inspiration of this movies could be any crowded cities in East and South-East Asia and even different places all over world, which was built by Asian but no city without streets, street commercials, phones.

[DATDUDE1979]

wow...and i thought i lived in the ghetto

[Ramble1212]

@DATDUDE1979 fuck you

[arickcheng]

香港歷史期中一部份

[ironmantis25]

I don't understand people even lived there.

I mean hong kong is just on footstep away from the city.

The people could have just leave and they would in the richest city in china.

Why do they even decided to stay, let alone live there?

[ckitz03]

@ironmantis25 back in the day the qing wouldn't give up the place for miltary purposes and the british really just wanted the land outside from the walled city, so the walled city belonged to china and kept the qing laws. years later people kept moving in cuz the rent was cheap, poor people and illegal immigrants. I was told that a month rent cost around $44 HKD ($6 - $7 USD).

[vinnievincent85]

@ironmantis25 do you think poor people choose to be poor? i guess you are a spoiled brat borned into a rich family

[castlevania78]

@ironmantis25 because they were undocumented, and the rent was cheaper than elsewhere.

[PandoraKyss]

Thank you for posting this awesome historical gem; this city fascinates me to no end.

[dan020350]

real shenmue

[Sabohaque]

@dan020350 hahaha

[mobile2]

Qing govt chose here because for military. It was not direct face to army or navy in Admiralty on Hong Kong Island.

there was hill at its back and it is near the sea. There was a pier. it was located near the terminal building of former Kai Tak Airport.

The walls of the original Kowloon walled city were destroyed by Japanese soldiers to build the runway of Kai Tak Aiport for Japan air force in second world war.

[Patriceorange]

Such a bleak place!

[Demokrator86]

Looks like a Ghost in the shell movie.

[SazankaJP]

見てるとドキドキする

日本の当時のゲームやマンガ、アニメその他に強い影響を与えた偉­大な建築物だよね

自分も実際に見てみたかったな

[SHOYAKUDONYA]

九龍城砦は、一つの香港の歴史だと私は思います。

私が初めて香港に行った1978年当時九龍城砦は賑わっていまし­た。

当時が非常に懐かしく思います。

[Mike619]

i would love to live there be honest

[Hanzi89]

Too bad it was demolished! I love how the japanese narrator really bashes down on the lucrative nature of the place lol

[YoukoEleena]

I'm really sad that they tore it down. The crime rate went down considerably and the people were working hard to live their lives there... I'm sure some of the people wanted to live in a better place, but for a lot of them that was home. I would have liked to visit.

[thecharlotteness]

Ah I definately agree, I wasn't even born when the place got torn down... I guess the best thing I can do is look at videos and pictures of it... It just always facinates me how people called such a place home or work, it must have really been something... makes me frustrated they tore it down; they could have at least kept a section of it or something :/

[YoukoEleena]

I think there's a little bit left featured in the park that replaced. Nothing like what once was there though. Really, the park is like a grave for Kowloon or something... in my opinion.

[TheHittheman]

@YoukoEleena now its a black ops map

[benf106]

@YoukoEleena me to

[CreativeCritisizm]

chinese love to live this way, like sardines, also the structure they thought was well built, its their answer to an active quake area, they should have built it about 20 storied higher, you know it could hold up very well.

[bayougrande]

Wonderfully squalid! This is the way people were meant to live.

[necabiris]

Remember:

Whenever seeing a video with asian language you can't identify: listen the music!

if it's classic music they talk japanese! Always! :D

Great Video, awesome place - i wouldn't like to have been living there...

it looks like from the movie bladerunner!

[yukimidaihuku000]

九龍城行きたかったなー・・・。

[Buddhastic]

hes speking azn

[awarewolf2]

@Buddhastic

1) Asian isn't a language. There are approximately 100 languages in Asian.

2) It's Japanese.

[Dostape]

@awarewolf2

no he is speaking azn

[spurtingcocks69]

OLD LADY LOOKS LIKE A TEABAG

[Ajuinvaliid]

which one doesnt ?

[OpheliaImmortal]

Very cool, thank you so much for posting this.

[MrRadioactivista]

incredible. thank you very much for sharing this!!! I read Girard's "City Of Darkness", and here I get to see KWC as it was full of people and life...

[DarkNCold88]

wow! fantastic footage. . when was this filmed? Would have really liked to explore the inside of this city if it still existed. Thanks for uploading and sharing

[logicradio1]

It was a den of triad crime groups, opium production, prostitution, and crime of the worst sort. A Christian woman from England went there and had a major impact on it establishing a mission within it. The Chinese government recognized her work but tore the city down in 95. It's a park now.

[TheGboyKing]

@logicradio1 i think your talking about the walled city before 75 after that more than 3,500 police raids resulted in over 2,500 arrests and over 4,000 pounds of seized drugs due to heavy police enforcement the triads lost interest, after that it became pretty calm its main problem was the growing amount of illigal doctors it had

[alduswong]

@DarkNCold88

Filmed in 1989.