Remembering Hong Kong’s ‘City of Darkness’

[@areasevenpro]

You can clearly see the influence of Kowloon Walled City in the films Blade Runner (1982) and Batman Begins (2005), as well as the video game Stray (2022).

[@Hkchinese888]

The gun battle in the hk movie ‘‘The Long Arm of the Law’ 省港旗兵at the end took place inside Wall City is a classic scene.

[@windmacher]

And Ghost in a Shell.

[@decentraIize]

​@@Hkchinese888 I love these types of movie

[@Bash-245]

Cyberpunk had its large mega-apartments.

[@arshiftikhar4500]

Judge dredd film is based on this city,

[@kcalb3180]

I was 10 when we moved out, and I still missed all the friendly people there.

[@knightforlorn6731]

I will never stop being fascinated by this place. I wish someone would discover a treasure trove of new video footage, my imagination runs wild through these labyrinthine walls.

[@roym.dossantos]

I feel the same. I know that people had it very tough in that place, but at the same time I feel there is something fascinating about both the dense organic architecture as well as the self governed nature of that place.

[@Caly_ssp]

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[@slickrik8011]

watch the new movie "city of darkness"!!

[@2Tree]

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[@masterofnone597]

that last guy was really from the heart

[@Songbirdstress]

Hong Kong is endlessly fascinating. Every time I learn more, I come back with even more admiration for Hongkongers. You are amazing.

[@szelongchang]

My grandad was once the largest portfolio landlord in Kowloon Walled City up until its demolition. He built nearly 1000 flats and sold them. He kept 99 of them up until demolition. The city's water supplied was also connected by him and he was once the "water department" of the city, user paid $20 per month and had 1000 user (persumably the flat built by him was connected with waterpipe). South China Morning post did an article was him regarding his air-con shop in the early 90's!

[@barbram8001]

Slum lord?

[@cholst1]

@@barbram8001 yeah he literally just described a slum lord

[@mattropolis99]

Of course it was a slum - that’s what Kowloon was. People romanticize Kowloon yet ignore the realities of what made it in the same breath. It wasn’t built by city cousels or planning committees. There was a lot of human suffering in there - as this video clearly showed.

[@DoublePlus-Ungood]

I'd love to read his memoirs in book form. If he is still with us you are sitting on an amazing piece of history.

[@ihatenfts501]

Inhumane landlord final boss (no offense

[@orphes4989]

Thanks for making this. It's a very interesting topic and quite unlike any city I've looked into.

[@cheeru6457]

Thank you so much for making this short documentary because I never knew such a place ever existed in HK.

[@XDF745]

If you search there are better documentaries on KZbin with far more footage inside the city.

[@cheeru6457]

@@XDF745 You mean there are more documentaries about this place?

[@J.G.Wentworth69420]

​@@cheeru6457do you live under a rock?

[@allyip5777]

Albert Ng is our pastor in Island ECC today. A man I greatly respect. I also highly recommend everyone to read Jackie Pullinger's "Chasing the Dragon", a book that details her mission.

[@envitech02]

5:35 I like it when Jackie speaks super fluent Cantonese.

[@quyenluong3705]

Still had an accent

[@lungchan1729]

she is full of love. I admire that. even though she kinda of agenda converting people to Christianity but she is full of love.

[@strawberriecarrots9350]

@@quyenluong3705everyone who isn’t a native speaker will have an accent

[@SWEETH0NEYDEW]

@@strawberriecarrots9350 And even native speakers can still have an accent and not pronounce words right

[@ProjectWolve]

reminds me of my late grandma. We're chinese but she grew up in the era of colonial Britain here in Singapore. Whenever we spoke canton there was always the accent. My mom would joke about it. Gosh I miss grandma...

[@DanielHomeImprovement]

I recently discovered this channel and have to tell you you guys do amazing documentaries

[@dustingriffith7399]

There is a Japanese anime video series called CRYING FREEMAN (1988-94) and only one episode of that series shows KOWLOON WALLED CITY! We seriously need more movies, tv shows and videos of the big KOWLOON WALLED CITY as it was all filmed there before the 1994 demolition! Let’s see more of KOWLOON WALLED CITY in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and the early 1990s!!!

[@Tommy-xy1eh]

Thank you Mr. Albert Ng 🙏🏻 I understood what you meant , felt for you but , also happy what you have turned out. ❤ 🇭🇰

[@kl9518]

True story. Jacky Pullinger was invited by the Queen of England. She took Chan Hok Yin to see the Queen. When Yin came through immigration in UK, the officer asked him the purpose of his visit. Can you imagine an ex Triad with criminal records saying that he was invited by the Queen?😂 He had to show the officer his invitation. 😂

[@cheche1301]

Thank you for this report. Glad i saw it

[@lephtovermeet]

I really wish i could have seen and experienced this place before it was raized. I know it wasn't some utopia, if anything it was dystopian, but what an absolutely fascinating place and period.

[@ThuyTran-ci2et]

Great documentary! I was in HK 1987 and wished I had known about this place simply to look from the outside. Incredibly interesting.

[@johnj.kalachuchi6495]

Thank you for this documentary. Probably if the place existed still today, it is gonna be one of the tourist spots foreigners would be visiting curiously.

[@issiewizzie]

goodness this would make an interesting filming location

[@Elduderino9097]

Someone needs to make a game of sorts where you get to freely walk around an interpretation of the city in first person.

[@dantss]

Black ops 1 DLC has kowloon city as a map you can walk around a portion of the roofs

[@amele_2]

in the game Stray you don’t get to do it in first person but you get to do it as a cat!

[@billlybunter]

Brilliant video, thanks for posting

[@Conceptualcreatures]

Love it. So beautifully told ❤

[@badgerp-chanqueen7707]

Kowloon Walled City become inspiration to many medias.

[@ronalddavidasagra9237]

finally new kowloon walled city documentary just dropped 🔥🔥🔥

[@patrickkaiserliew3691]

Very informative.

[@jamin-r4k]

the biggest drug "triad" were the brits in honkong.

[@jimb0678]

It's a wonder to me that the walled city never burnt down.

[@jawadkhelil5742]

"City of Stars are You Shinning just for Me" a song by Ryan Gosling who played in 2011's movie "Drive" and is supposed (according to the rumors) to play the character of Ghost Rider for Marvel (a man who sells his soul to the devil...again) and Emma Stone who played in "Kinds of Kindness" "The Amazing Spiderman 2" with Jamie Foxx from "Ray" (2005) and "Django Unchained" (2013) Puzzle Solved and I could go on and on and on and on and on but it will be too long. Peace Next

[@iPadPipi]

thank you 🤗

[@imeldagloria8130]

Memory that remain in their hearts of kowloon walled city.

[@AI-R12]

Thank you for letting me feel the real situation. If Hong Kong had the policy of affordable housing at that time, I believe these people would have a better living environment..... As for housing, local policies are still very important.... Hopefully these problems can now be solved with affordable housing.....

[@LeoDragon34]

Hong Kong’s public housing programme started in 1954, 40 years before the Walled City was demolished. It has always been oversubscribed, however. And don’t underestimate the determination of the people operating illegally inside the walled city to keep operating illegally. In addition, it’s status with China made a resolution difficult. It was only with 1997 looming that China finally agreed to allow the HK government, controlled then by the British, to do something about it. They didn’t want it still there by the handover because it was seen as embarrassing for the Chinese Government. Without the handover, I believe it would still be there to this day.

[@Bobsk3]

So where are all these people housed? It was not mentioned in your piece.

[@djarin-ares]

Most were chased away and lived on the streets

[@genchwanlim2970]

why the reupload?

[@fhs7838]

I think when I saw it first time, it was >12min...

[@Der.Geschichtenerzahler]

Where's the older video about this place?

[@Nelson__Mandela]

Once again, humanity won over lawlessness and negligence

[@Zjelli1]

8:44, 1991 not 1993

[@panamageorge]

Needless to say, it wasn't an ideal place to live. But I've always been fascinated by it. I wonder if I walked by it during my visit back in the 80s.

[@JamesJiansen]

why they keep reuploading this

[@leocyh123]

I was there and met Cyclone. His Cyclone Punch is awesome.

[@CastleLager-lf5eu]

Looks better than any Indian city for sure 👍🏻

[@franktoh3041]

The Kowloon walled city is a luxurious slum compared to India's.

[@devilwithangelicheart7133]

Have you been to India?? Or any normal Indian town??

[@oxy2986]

Nah , I myself amazed as indian , you never seen our cities then if you think this is better then any indian city . And is dense . Even dharavi largest slum in india only isn't this crowded its mostly grounded and in better condition then Knollwood.

[@stevensims3342]

I really wish there was more HD footage of this place.

[@埊]

Remembrance of City of Nine Dragons musnt be forgotten, everyone needs to see that it is a society of perfect ideal Anarchy.

[@KNful]

this reminds me of Mugenjou from Getbackers 😬

[@notnice9873]

now, there will be a Movie about this place .. very soon.

[@lollydolly6004]

they already do, its called Twilight of the Warriors

[@jalepezo]

I am peruvian and we have many organic and walled cities with local kingpings and no rule of the state. I can identify with such misery

[@arshiftikhar4500]

Judge dredd film is based on this city,

[@nazhif1]

reupload?

[@lollydolly6004]

no this is new

[@MrJasonghost]

Will visit 1 day

[@10yrsjointguy]

it’s torn down alr

[@MrJasonghost]

The site

[@donutlarper7179]

​@@MrJasonghostthe sites a park

[@MrJasonghost]

@@donutlarper7179 yes i m aware

[@mughug9616]

Any truth about the mass graves under the Kowloon City park?

[@nameinvalid69]

so where the 50000 people goes after it demolished? I kinda doubt they were treated well, or given helps they need.

[@barbram8001]

What happened to Hong Kong?

[@kveeesh]

9:32

[@jimmydean4152]

repost?

[@francispua3210]

COD Black Ops: Hong Kong mission

[@MapleJokerRofl]

Well Hong Kong didn’t upgrade itself much better after anyways.. people living in cages inside little apartments now adays.

[@ダンピール]

this video is missing a lot of context

[@SubwayStreetvendorblocki-hn1wy]

That's what happens when you don't invade, you become secluded. Duh Australia was right in your backyard but your superstition told you " no open backdoor". But fing shoe is wong because the Irish prisoners are having the time of their lives right now. Australia is a comfortable place to live and Chinese people have to be crammed into smaller and smaller spaces.

[@babbathehat2919]

[@Warren_Flatt]

of course that white woman missionary said it was dangerous. my dad grew up there and he only had fond memories.

[@williamchen1997]

Thanks to China who has turned Hong Kong into a liveable city after 1997 with better urban planning. 🇨🇳🇭🇰

[@kl9518]

Yes, Hong Kong became a free part of China. Citizens elections for our own chief executive rather than the British sending a governor without choice. Free trade rather than just the British. There is no need to pay tax to the British.

[@sheepcs4952]

😅😅😅

[@mlisaj1111]

These seem like totally normal, not at all paid-propaganda, comments to me.

[@Hkchinese888]

I live in a 2mx2m cubicle room in Sham Shui Po. 😂😂😂

[@RSCB]

2mmx2mm

[@DDDrumpf]

You sound so proud, old kidd!! So you live in a 2mx2m cubicle room and you are proud of it?? Too bad, no, old kidd?? Why don't you go back to India and live with the cows ???

[@isleephungry]

You are already very lucky in Dharavi, where entire families live in a similar space.😂

[@wynn3077]

😂 Attack of the Chinese bots .

[@wynn3077]

@@ToiChutGongWu😂 Got you again 3-0

[@mlisaj1111]

No running water and just one outside pump? Yikes. That must have been quite the hike for the upper floors.

[@alisterbedindang407]

Meteor city

[@ИсидораАлександрова]

Lewis John Thomas Frank Anderson Frank

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

somebody show this video to all these pro democracy guys

[@misterbig9025.]

Hong kong is going to become worse than Kowloon walled city

[@axjagfilms]

the box

[@damainx]

hmmm... just like new york now

[@mlisaj1111]

You think NYC apartments don’t have running water?😂😂😂

[@Whitedog2024]

Best city

[@UnhallowedFury]

WOWLOON walled city.

[@not_creative6969]

The a kung fu movie about this

[@shadow.banned]

Hotline Miami.

[@jackreacher8858]

China ghost cities is heaven send in comparing to this huh !

[@getshorty7549]

birth control birth control birth control - a little louder for the Asians in the back of the room, BIRTH CONTROL!!!!!!

[@goodo5691]

there are smells in hong kong i have never smelt before, and never want to again

[@putiputain1230]

Last time i went to HK was in 2019 before covid and it was impressive seeing the walled city. Going back next week to Kowloon and it wont be the same.

[@waisinglee1509]

It was pulled down 30 years ago...

[@Sjalabais]

Wild, wild experiment with humans. Kowloon Walled City pops up all across the internet continuously to this day. I won't ever understand how a wet, damp, smelly place like this, totally overrun by people, didn't just disintegrate into a huge puff of mold and decay more or less immediately. It was a human anthill.

[@locadeva]

it would have been great if female interviewees were presented too.

[@mattropolis99]

there was - were you not watching?

[@noramorales4678]

May be if HK was not reign by the royals during the British era, it might not that improve, the time I was there was 1989 and twas a very peaceful country.

[@goodciro]

Bloodsport vibes

[@Takeitlightly6]

The song dynasty must love to sing very much

[@blueberrysponge42]

Great interviews. Only I would love to hear from more women who lived in that place. Were there fewer women because it was dangerous?

[@eileenkung5839]

👍

[@fendisugiri1247]

Hive Cities of the future.

[@celiafeconors216]

White Kimberly Anderson Angela Moore Deborah

[@HasrinHarith]

Anarchism for real!

[@Anti-CornLawLeague]

Anything for cheap rents.

[@MrYoyochu]

This was during British rule.

[@patg2235]

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[@MarioSchlemmer-s5k]

The population of Honkong suffered alot under the foreign rule of the British. These conditions were dehumanizing.

[@marcstein2510]

Yes but by far not as much as the people in mainland china where millions died of famine and repression during mao zedongs cultural revolution and the great leap forward. Millions of mainlanders actually fled to hongkong to be safe during the 1950s to 1980s.

[@XDF745]

Kowloon walled city wasn't under British control.

[@isuckatguitar6252]

Kowloon Walled City was not under British rule like the rest of the city, this was strictly Chinese no-mans land. The rest of HK had much stricter laws on building structures. The HK police weren't even allowed to enforce the law there.

[@taiwanstillisntacountry]

Kowloon Walled City, last slum of British HK. Compare to places like Dahravi please. Oh wait, Kowloon City doesn't excist anymore.

[@misterbig9025.]

your english skill is also non existent

[@oxy2986]

Dharavi is also slum set up by British but also "dharavi" will not exist after some years .

[@AleDuke-fd5qz]

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[@misterbig9025.]

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[@Hkchinese888]

why so many beggars in China-quora

[@Hkchinese888]

Dongguan homeless--yt

[@Hkchinese888]

chyna rotten tail building-yt

[@Hkchinese888]

chidians are desperate---scmp