Could a kino be created here?
>>221151386It has a conveniently placed central plaza that is perfect for final showdowns between protagonists and antagonists so I'd say yes.
>>221151386If you had a time machine...There was a hong kong action movie set there last year, but i dunno how they did it or if it was any good...
>>221151386Already did it. Picrel.
>>221151386Of course. Shame it was bulldozed.
>>221151386
>>221151478It it wasn't for them forcing the 3d gimmick, it would have sold better.
>>221151505Wasn't it a crime ridden shanty town?also I'm more disappointed about the Kowloon inspired arcade being shut down
>>221151386>>221151505what did they eat
>>221151568NTA, a lot of illegal shit went down there but not really as much violent crime as you would expect from a literally lawless town that police don't even bother entering.The triads ruled with their own laws inside the walled city. And most of the inhabitants lived pretty normal lives (despite there being no sunlight in there coz it was so dense).>>221151592There were restaurants and fast food vendors and grocery stores in there.
>>221151386Nightmare location for a rage virus event.
>>221151505Excellent photo anon. Thanks for posting. Dump some more if you have any.
>>221151568You mean like every city in America is turning into?
Twilight of the Warriors was pretty comfy and fun until the final fight got pretty goofy.
Whos got that big kowloon cross section picture?
>>221151449Wasn't Kung Fu Hustle based on this?
>>221151568>>221151632One of the biggest "industries" in the place was illegal drug trade. Asian countries tend to have very strict laws regarding drugs, but in KWC you could do all the heroin you ever wanted with impunity. That alone made it a highly desirable place to live for certain types of lowlives.
>>221151386If you're interested in this, there's a great book of photography about it - "City of Darkness"
>>221151700
>>221151386Movies set in or inspired by the Kowloon Walled City range from historical action dramas to gritty, dystopian sci-fi. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024): Widely considered the definitive and most accurate representation of the Walled City. This award-winning Hong Kong martial arts thriller follows a troubled youth who finds sanctuary and a new family within the Walled City. It features massive, life-sized replica sets.Crime Story (1993): Starring Jackie Chan, this action-thriller was filmed inside the actual Walled City just before its demolition, featuring real scenes of the building complex.Brothers from the Walled City (1982): An older Shaw Brothers production specifically set inside the enclave.Long Arm of the Law (1984): A classic triad film where the Walled City serves as a final, desperate refuge for a gang of criminals.Bloodsport (1988): Jean-Claude Van Damme's iconic martial arts tournament movie uses the Walled City as a backdrop for the underground fighting circuit.Chasing the Dragon (2017): A biographical crime film starring Donnie Yen and Andy Lau that prominently features the dark, corrupt era of the Walled City.Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013): A martial arts drama detailing the later years of Ip Man, which includes substantial scenes set in the Walled City.Ghost in the Shell (1995): Director Mamoru Oshii has cited the dense, chaotic, and unregulated urban environment of the Walled City as the primary inspiration for the architectural design of his futuristic, cyberpunk metropolis.The Raid: Redemption (2011): While taking place in a modern Jakarta apartment building, this relentless action movie perfectly mirrors the enclosed, lawless, and labyrinthine atmosphere of the Walled City.Blade Runner (1982): The sprawling, vertical, and cramped aesthetic of the dystopian Los Angeles was heavily influenced by the visual density of the real Walled City.
>>221151681I used to have a ton. A device of mine shat itself and I lost a bunch. Even typing this pisses me off. Sorry.
>>221151700Browns really can't tell the difference between this and the OP pic.
>>221151505Was it a cyberpunk dystopia?
>>221151386>this is a real place The simulation isn’t even trying to fool me with its procedural generation anymore
>>221151386Chungking Express already exists
>>221151386>libertarians are still seething this city was destroyed
My aunt ended up working there before coming to Canada. The pics she had looked like something of a video game
>>221151681>>221152122If you guys are willing to go digging I will. Some of the stories from that place were batshit. There is also a documentary about it that used to be on YouTube. Some dude got in there and recorded it.
>>221151386the walk through documentary was kino as fuck
>>221151386>>221151505crazy place
>>221151592oh and re:>>221152389 there was a noodle making shop featured in the documentary. in like a gross pitch black room they just made (not cooked) noodles all day long to be sold outside kowloon
let me guess...you need more...
>>221152397Yeah.If the janny will allow this thread to continue, I'm down with finding images of this actual place.
>>221152556I used to have a much larger image of this. But you can see. Imagine living in this place. Imagine trying to make a movie in it. Fucking insane.
>>221152389https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rj8m7Ssow
How much child prostitution happened there?
>>221152704Looks nicer than any brown slum
>>221151991Greg Girard took a lot of great photos of the place. Even the one you posted was taken by him. Shouldn't be too hard to find an album of his work online.
>>221151386With a nuclear weapon, absolutely.
>>221151505>Shame it was bulldozedlooks like it would have bulldozed itself by how shitty those buildings look
>>221151386It's called Bloodsport
>>221152732Fuck yes thank you sir.
>>221152706Νice. Funny that germans made the documentary must have been like going to hell
>>221152771Building codes are jewish lies
>>221151592Each other.The chink is very low on the food chain.
>>221152728wife's aunt used to live there. it was livable if you're near the edge but it was so humid and hot if you live near the center. still, it offered cheap accomodation for workers.>>221152712none according to her. crime was more on drugs and petty thievery. the people living in there are pretty much tight knit since everyone was just trying to get by in a shitty place and if you let disorder run lose you'd have violence all over the place.
>>221152248Based aunt
>>221152781These children belong in a zoo.
>>221152771Look it up. It's fucking bonkers. I was in and out of construction and telecom for 20yrs. I fucking LOVE the place. The shit these people got up to. The structural loads. The way they just kept building with FUCKING ZERO CODES. None. Is fucking nuts to me. Now imagine the way they tested their way through hacking the electrical. It's a fucking case study.
>>221152828You have any?
>>221151505SOVL
>>221151700american cities are not turning into KWC no matter how many times fox news tells you they are
>>221152784i'm sure all the people that died in the triangle fire would agree with you incel
>>221152556For some reason, I assume that it would be really easy to get laid there.
>>221152805I love chinese food
>>221151875Yeah
>>221151386that one mission of black ops 1
>>221152805Not very nutritious though.
>>>221153009They are weak, you have to take what you can get.
>>221152933>”incel”>no fun allowed.jpgwe get it, you’re transgender. Why do you keep telling us?
>>221151700Diversity is our strength! This is white men’s fault!
>>221151386Bloodsport filmed some scenes there. Btw I don't care if Bloodsport is fake that movie is pure kino. It's still real to me damnit. I wish I could've gone there before it got tore down. I've watched everything on YouTube about it. Shitooked cool as fuck.
>>221151386>WALLED but it wasn't even 30
>>221153138How is being in your 50s treating you.
>>221151449That space should be for an urban soccer pitch on concrete. Completely walled in with either the buildings or high chainlink fences.
>>221153178heh
>>221153093you have jew derangement syndrome so yes you are an incel
>>221153138>Bloodsport is fakeThis is what I never understood. It would have been certified kino without the fake true story attached. There was no reason for Dux to do this and definitely no reason for him to carry on with the larp.
>>221151386i was writing a story based in kowloon but lost interest in living so it’ll remain unfinished.
>>221151505Never froget bros, they took this from us...
For me, it's Africa's Venice
>>221153528Cool
>>221153594African Merchant of Venice would be kino
>>221153674>African Death in Venice
>>221153289It was tongue-in-cheek, you have autism.
>>221153594was there some village of boats moored together somewhere like vietnam or hong kong or did i dream that?
>>221152933>>221153289go away, this is a comfy thread
>>221152933that was a labor law problem, can't lock the doors on people to keep them inside your sweatshop
>>221152828some kind of walled, isolated habitat?
>>221151967Thanks chatnigger
>>221151478Based
>>221153289Kek what a self-report
>>221151386we got kowloon kino on the dreamcast
>>221151875>>221152968No, it was shanghai and the axe gang, the landlord appartment was how China was before Mao's anti landlord revolution
>>221154448Want to play lucky hit?
>>221151505>Libertarian hive of scum and villainy>Shame it was bulldozed
Imagine if it was still around, and had only grown in size and complexity.
>>221155599Digits witnessed and yeah it would have been insane. Imagine the shenanigans people would get up to with modern tech in a n off-grid place in which they cannot get arrested. It would be the capital of piracy and digital breaching and leaks.
>>221155180kek
I mean we still got the rest of Hong Kong...
>>221153802No I saw it too in the movie Armageddon. It looked so kino, I promised myself I’d go there one day. Still don’t even know where it is.
>>221155743>place in which they cannot get arrestedLiterally Tijuana. 20 years ago, yeah it was a little more policed, but NOW? You can get any drug you want at a pharmacy (like literally anything). They used to regulate prostitution very well, but now there’s a 100% chance your hooker has AIDS, and worse! I do a lot of work for boomer Mexicans in Los Angeles that have $$$ and there’s an epidemic of old ladies getting all the STDs that ever existed because their husbands go to TJ and live out their wildest fantasies…if you know what I mean. I know a lady that got arrested because she found a “photo album” her husband had in is office, but since she had it, she was charged with possession. A million dollars in attorney fees later she’s okay, but I can’t talk about the things she told me she found in that album. Things I didn’t know were possible.
>>221152912thiswe are literally incapable of being that based!
>>221155846I thought coffin homes were for the lowest of the low—basically homeless lowlifes. The shock I experienced when I learned they’re basically the middle class and that struggling working class sleep at McDonald’s cannot be put into words.
>>221151568>Wasn't it a crime ridden shanty town?Yes, but that wasn't the reason. It was a small patch of land that neither the Chinese Government nor Hong Kong laid claim to for decades. It was essentially uncontested land simply because neither side wanted it. So it became a haven for the homeless and the Triads where they had their own economy and governance. Eventually, after getting over some red-tape shit, the Chinese government decided to claim it in the early 90s. To get people out, they basically paid people and offered them home ownership in China.Allegedly, they had extremely good street food there that people would go there from Hong Kong for because it was right outside the city.
>>221152740Kino
>>221151386This is a joke right
>>221156630It's not that neither side wanted it, if the British had occupied it they would have violated the treaty they signed with the qing empire and if the Chinese had occupied it they would have recognized the treaty the British had with the qing as legal validating the British claim to Hong Kong.
>>221156659>>221152740Great film they are making a sequel and a prequel
Stranglehold had a Kowloon level, and yes it was kino
>>221151910>>221152732Greg is a cool guy, he still comes back to HK often enough. Also highly recommend his work on the U.S.>>221151876>>221151505There’s a permanent exhibit at the KWC park that shows the rooftops by day and by night. Kids playing up there in the day and junkies shooting up by night. It was cool in the abstract but the reality was a bit sad.
>>221157067Yet somehow still cleaner than any where in India
Reminder that Libertarians were right about everything.
>>221152215yeah of course, cheap rent and housing, why is this bad?why do you want expensive goods and services? cuck
>>221157134Any system works when there's no blacks or jews
>>221157149It was one building collapse away from disaster, then they would have torn it down anyway
>>221157149>cheap rentlol everybody gets that place wrong. It wasn’t cheap to live there. People LOVED living there. They had electricity and plumbing. Most of you forget that 70 years ago even, Chinese people would starve to death if they couldn’t find food. Living there was a luxury.
>>221152122>Was it a cyberpunk dystopia?Somewhat. It wasn't some futuristic place or filled with neon shit, but it was lawless (literally the reason it existed the way it did) and everything was extremely dark, badly lit and claustrophobic. It was nicknamed The City of Darkness since there wasn't much natural light inside and the only lighting in there was what people bothered to add themselves.
Somehow, the most annoying thing i can imagine from living on that place is that everyone speaks chinese
>>221157361>that pictureIs it weird that I feel some kind of deep yearning in my soul to go there and live in a place like that?>retard, just go to slums in asia, or africa, or slav commie blocks they have the same thing!Its not the same at all.
i mentioned kowloon walled city to my elderly kong kong boss and he fired me
>>221157738You can find places like it in Hong Kong and always could, so that's about as close as you can get now. The thing that separates Hong Kong from China and a lot of Asia in general was that it was really first world compared to the rest, so these alleyways weren't slums the rest of Asia had. Kowloon itself was essentially Hong Kong taken to the max in a condensed space.
>>221151386As an Indian Hindu rape rat, all I see is a normal, cleaner-than-average city here, with perfectly acceptable population density. What's so fascinating about it?
>>221157790This, it was a claustrophobic lawless drug den by night, but they weren't stuck eating rats and dirt pies like any other third world slum. Actual families lived there and they had modern amenities.
>>221157811Slum aesthetic with food, running water and electricity, and without the risk of getting robbed, raped, or having your organs harvested most of the time
>>221157846There are slums, and then there is India anon. Like take the worst living conditions in the worst country in the world....multiply that by 100, subtract all hope of improvement, and then you have India. Source: 2 years in the peace corps in that hell hole
>>221151967>BloodsportThere's like one 15 second shot that could have been shot in any alleyway in any city on the planet.
>>221157873>ethiopians and somalians in the northHow? They'd freeze during the winter.
>>221157738>Is it weird that I feel some kind of deep yearning in my soul to go there and live in a place like that?Yes. That photo is disgusting.
>>221151568>Kowloon inspired arcadethe one in kawasaki?was there a few times. it was pretty cool.
>>221154448Few games ever made had the atmosphere of those 2.Despite being flawed they really were special.Wish i had a VGA CRT monitor coz i still have my Dreamcast and both those games, and DC games look fucking outstanding on a VGA CRT even today.
>>221151386Extraction 3 would rule hard in a location like this
>>221152912I don't know why leftroons seem to be stuck in 2008.>g-go back to watching Bill O'Reilly, nazi!!Nobody, left or right, under the age of 50 watches fox.
>>221159099>Nobody, left or right, under the age of 50 watches fox.This part is objectively wrong. There’s less the lower you go in age brackets but it is no where near zero.
>>221151386lol. It’s 1987. You’re on a business trip in Hong Kong staying in the encircled area. You ask some guy at the hotel bar: “what goes on there?” The bartender, a pretty Chinese girl about 25-27 says speaks for him: “only good time. You never wanna leave there.” Then she smiles and has a gold tooth that twinkles (like in home alone—makes the sound and everything). You cross the street and enter a world where you can do anything and anything can happen to you. There’s no going back home now. You don’t even know where the exits are, or maybe you just don’t care. “This is home, it was always home” you mumble to one of your new wives. She didn’t understand what you said, but she giggles and kisses the tip of your cock before she goes back to sleep, the same way she did when you both first met. It was strange how you thought was strange at first, and how now it’d be strange had she not done it, you think to yourself as you rest your head on her sister’s thigh and fall asleep to soothing sound of gunfire.
>>221159308Sorry for the typos but I’m drunk. At least I’m contributing to the original post.
>>221159308Fucking basedWe have to go back, I wanna live there
>>221151478Great movie except the running out of ammo part. As soon as the protagonist realized he was running out of ammo, he should have started collecting ammo from all the dead goons, or at least take one of their side arms, just in case. Those weren't DNA locked.
>>221151505people should build these all across the world, (((they))) bulldozed it out of fear
why were redditors so obsessed with this slum
>>221159532We’re meant to live like that, you know. Everyone on this website makes fun of people that live like that, but it’s exactly what the founding fathers wanted the US to be. If you didn’t like it then take your loyalist ass back to Britain. That’s literally what the second amendment was for. You wanna build a pool on your land however you want? Someone would have to stop you, but you can stop them “legally.” Building codes aren’t natural. The only reason you can’t just build a swimming pool on your front yard is because a bunch of people say you can’t. And they have more numbers than you. Why do you think they’re so scared of communism that it’s literally the only thing you’re not allowed to be in the US? Communism doesn’t have to be Che Guevara shirts and trannies. It can be anything they say it is. It can be Kowloon.
>>221151386there is an anime in the setting called kowloon generic romancefunny name because its anything but generic
>>221159308Fucking hell... we have to go back...
>>221159409Judges can't use illegal firearms, that would be a crime.
It looks fascinating but it's an hellhole and I wouldn't want to live there for all the STD-riddled chinese wives with hooked feet you could gift me.>Oh but everyone who lived there said it was greatLol, lmao. Since when do we trust bugmen when it comes to living standards?
>>221151505reminder that it was primarily bulldozed because of the hazard it posed to the nearby airportwere it not in the way there's a good chance it'd still be standing, that is if the internet age doesn't make Xi see it as too big a stain on the country's image>>221152215>libertarians>lot liberals even morethis is the mecca to their muh walkable cities, fuck le cars shtick and their ultimate endgame
>>221151386There was already a video game inspired by it.
>>221157506>>221157738Imagine the smell
>>221152704I mean thanks more or less what half of Japan in the cities looks like in 2026
>>221151753Yeah, the sets were very well made, hoping they maintain the level of quality for the prequel
>>221151967>Chasing the Dragon (2017)this seems kino, gonna watch it tonight ty
>>221157790Hong Kong had shantytown slums until the late 90s iirc
>>221160281did the story that picks up a dozen or so chapters into it end in a satisfying way? I remember I liked the art but dropped it.
>>221155528It's poverty porn for low iq individuals.
>>221151512KUMINTE KUMINTE KUMNITE
>>221160915never read the manga but the anime story is pretty conclusive with no loose ties I remember
>>221160698I fucking loved that one. I didn’t even like playing it. I liked watching my brother play it. Best sleep I ever drifted off to was watching him play that at 2AM.
>>221152556>that one guy lounging by his single family shack mansion slaps your slant wife on the asshow do you respond?
>>221160944My body's ready, my heart's on fireI'm gonna push it over the wirePerfect timing, tight as a drumYour final battle's already wonI'm taking hold of every moment (every moment)Given strength by the breath of life (breath of life)I'm gonna stake my claimI fight to SURVIVE!!!!
