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Would love to see a 3d recreation of as much as possible. Would be cool to go thru all the videos and documentation of it and build a real 3d world from that
How are you posting on TIL without at least giving us a Wikipedia article? For shame OP! Today only you, and nobody else learns!
Jokes aside, on the topic of this amazing walled city, apart from it being an admittedly filthy anarchic crime-ridden shithole, it genuinely is an intensely interesting place straight out of a cyberpunk setting, it genuinely was a wonder of the world
an intensely interesting place straight out of a cyberpunk setting
It is, in fact, the actual setting of Shadowrun: Hong Kong. So the SR writers at the very least must agree with you.
This. Not as a joke.
It was demolished in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
Part of it while filming a Jackie Chan movie.
Also a killer movie set in it came out last year. Featuring Samo kam-bo hung.
I’m so confused. What movie takes over 30 years to produce?
Different films. I guess this is the Jackie chan movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_Story_(1993_film)?wprov=sfla1
Neither. Crime story came out in 93. Featuring actual footage of a destruction of a block. Twilight of the warriors came out last year set in a recreated Kowloon. With pretty decent realism disregarding the martial arts fantasy.
