Film + Travel Asia, Oceania, Africa: Traveling the World Through Your Favorite Movies
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Featuring color photographs of movie locations, sites, and landmarks, this guide for film buffs and travel lovers provides information about notable scenes from 139 movies shot throughout Asia, Oceania, and Africa. Drive into the parking garage at the University of Melbourne and follow in the footsteps of Mel Gibson in Mad Max. Go to the 83rd floor of the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong and see where Angelina Jolie jumped in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Whisper your deepest desires into the walls of Ta Prom Temple in Cambodia and re-create In the Mood for Love. Warm up your vocal chords at Karaoke-kan in Tokyo and pay homage to Lost in Translation. Discover which tiny Tasmanian town of 300 residents inspires Hayao Miyazaki, the anime mastermind behind Spirited Away and Kiki’s Delivery Service. Find out when the scenery of Vietnam is in Cambodia and when it’s in Puerto Rico and much, much more.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Can't appreciate the book with this layout. Either most of the photos are missing in this version of it was edited in a very strange way. I stopped reading once I "finished" South Korea as it became too frustrating to continue.
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Film + Travel Asia, Oceania, Africa - Museyon Guides
© Museyon Inc. 2008-2013
Permission to use The Last Emperor courtesy of: © Recorded Picture Company
Cover Illustration: © Jillian Tamaki copyright 2008
Published in the United States by:
Museyon Inc.
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Museyon is a registered trademark.
Visit us online at www.museyon.com
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MAP : ASIA
MAP : OCEANIA
MAP : AFRICA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 : HONG KONG NOCTURNE: THE CITY IN PICTURES
HONG KONG, CHINA BY SCARLET CHENG
Hong Kong Ferry
The Tram
Tsimshatsui
Chungking Mansions
Mongkok
Peninsula Hotel
Bottoms Up
Temple Street
Victoria Harbour
Bank of China Tower
International Finance Centre
On Set With Zhang Yimou
Lan Kwai Fong
Times Square
Causeway Bay
The Excelsior Hotel
Hong Kong Yacht Club
Goldfinch Restaurant
02 : INSIDE AND BEYOND THE TOURIST TRAPS
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA BY ELISE YOON
KOFIC Namyangju Studios
Joint Security Area (DMZ)
Han River Park
Olympic Stadium
Geumho Mountain Park
Pusan
COEX Aquarium
Tous Les Jours
Seoul Land Amusement Park
Jjul Bying Budae Jigae
03 : A CINEMATIC CITY, OLD AND NEW
TOKYO, JAPAN BY EIJA NISKANEN
Tokyo Tower
Ginza
Nihonbashi
Shibamata
Taishakuten Temple
Roppongi
Roppongi Hills
Mori Art Museum
Shibuya
Dogenzaka
Scramble Crossroad
Harajuku
Omotesando
Akihabara
Shinjuku
Kabukicho
Okubo
Park Hyatt Hotel
04 : THE EVERY WAR, THE EVERY EDEN
THAILAND + CAMBODIA BY JOSE LUSTRE JR.
Kanchanaburi
Bangkok
Khao San Road
Chao Phraya River
Patpong
Chiang Mai
Angkor Wat
Phuket
Hat Patong
Hat Karon
Hat Kata
05 : GREAT SOUTHERN FILMSCAPES
AUSTRALIA + NEW ZEALAND BY GEMMA BLACKWOOD
Melbourne
Frankston
Yarra River
Footscray
Vermont South
Great Ocean Road
Bells Beach
Sydney
Bondi Beach
Neutral Bay
Robertson
Flinders Ranges
Coober Pedy
Queenstown
Dunedin
Hagley Park
Port Levy
Mount Taranaki
Te Whanganui-A-Hei
Karekare Beach
Whangara
Otara
Moon Plains
Breakaway Mountains
Watarrka National Park
Katherine Gorge
Jedda Rock
Kanangra Falls
Arnhem Land
Kakadu National Park
06 : BEYOND THE AXIS OF EVIL
IRAN BY MIKAEL AWAKE
Jahan Nama Studio
Bandar-e Anzali
Tehran
The Gheisar Bathhouse
Kanoon
Fajr International Film Festival
National Grand Hall
Cinematheque Hall
Hamburger Stand Restaurant
Koker
Niatak
07 : AN AMERICAN IN MOROCCO
MOROCCO BY JOSE LUSTRE JR.
Casablanca
Hassan II Mosque
Moroccan Deserts
Ourzazate
Ait Benhaddou
Marrakech
Djem’a-a al-Fna
08 : A LONG TIME AGO…FAR, FAR AWAY– IN FILM
TUNISIA BY LEE MIDDLETON
Ongh Djemel
Sahara Sand Dunes
Tamerza
Tozeur
Degache
Sidi Bouhel
Sedala Desert
Nefta
Tataouine
Ksar Ouled Soltane
Matmâta
Medenine
Avenue 7 Novembre
Ksar Medenine
Ajim
Djerba Island
Gulf of Gabes
Sfax
Mahdia
Monastir
Ribat
Kasbah at Sousse
Kairouan
Sallah’s Home
Tunis
09 : BUILDING FANTASIES: EAST AFRICA IN FILM
EASTERN AFRICA BY LEE MIDDLETON
Lake Albert
Biondo
Serengeti
Masai Mara
Ngorongoro Crater
Karisoke Research Center
Volcanoes National Park
Kabara Meadow
Rosamund Carr’s flower plantation
Hotel des Milles Collines
Kampala
Kinshasa
May 20 Stadium
Kibera
Karen
Lake Nakuru
Lake Magadi
Lake Turkana
Lake Tanganyika
10 : KEEPING IT REAL IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN FILM
SOUTHERN AFRICA BY LEE MIDDLETON
Drakensberg Mountains
Royal Natal Park
Okhombe
Ukhahlamba Valley
Johannesburg
Soweto
Kalahari Desert
God’s Window
Mpumalanga Province
ANC Villa
Yeoville
Mbare
Robben Island
Cape Town Waterfront
Lake Kariba
Zambezi River
Hwange National Park
Victoria Falls
Sigidi
Pondoland
Table Mountain
Stellenbosch
READING / VIEWING
APPENDIX
INDEX + CREDITS
FILM
FOREWORD
If I said Asian Tourist,
you would have an exact image in your head.
He’s a skinny Japanese-looking man with a camera around his neck, surrounded by a flock of identical twins. The kind of guy who would be played by Gedde Watanabe, himself famous for playing Long Duk Dong in the John Hughes classic, Sixteen Candles. That stereotypical Asian has played pivotal roles in many a film. Where would Crocodile Dundee have been without the Asian Tourists
in the New York City subway? What about Gung Ho? Better Off Dead? Night Train? Oh there are so many film tourists to learn from! Suffice it to say this stereotype has probably blind-sided many non-Asians from film-tourism in the East. And don’t even get me started on African stereotypes in film! Think of all the safaris and jungle cruises we’ve missed out on simply because we think we’ve seen all the same movies.
That’s why we created The Museyon Guide: Film+Travel: Asia/Oceania/Africa. We have an award-winning Ethiopian-American film director taking us through Iran. An Asian-American journalist who’s lived on the African continent longer than in the U.S., guiding us through southeastern Africa. A Finnish film professor showing us Tokyo…and all of them doing it, through the lens of film, for the sake of the new, intrepid traveler. The one who hates being called a tourist. The one who’s ready to take that stereotypical Asian tourist’s camera and shove it. We hope you enjoy it.
See you on location.
01
NOCTURNE: THE CITY IN PICTURES
HONG KONG, CHINA
Hong Kong is a dizzying patchwork of sleepy colonial past and vibrant capitalist present. In the shadow of gleaming glass and steel skyscrapers lies a rabbits’ warren of streets, where cobblers mend shoes in tiny stalls while modern-day businessmen and women in Prada suits rush by, checking their iPhones. Add to the mix breathtaking views—from mountain peaks to undulating harbors—and you have the makings of a very photogenic city.
Moviemakers from around the world have long been drawn to the city’s visual splendor, and despite its modest size, Hong Kong—now a Special Administrative Region under the People’s Republic of China—has a powerhouse of a film industry. Foreign film companies first arrived in the 1950s, when location shooting and stories set in the exotic Far East were all the rage in Hollywood. Films from these early days included both comedies like The Road to Hong Kong (1962) and melodramas like Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) and The World of Suzie Wong (1960).
In the 1990s, the territory produced over 200 films a year. Many were shot on location, making use of winding old roads and sleek modern freeways, dilapidated tenements and soaring mansions, smoky temples and state-of-the-art shopping malls. Some—especially action films like those by John Woo, Kirk Wong and Johnny To—found avid audiences abroad.
These days it seems the skyscrapers have taken over. In the last ten years, a host of old buildings has been torn down, parts of Victoria Harbour filled in, and a whole crop of new buildings raised up. But the old persists. Even off busy Queen’s Road, a block or two from the subway, sidewalk stalls still line the alleys, selling clothing and household items; old-style cafes and noodle shops are tucked in amongst the trendy coffee shops and boutiques. So it makes sense to start a tour with a couple of wonderfully old and scenic ways to get about the city: the ferry and the tram.
HONG KONG FERRY
There’s a delicious moment in The World of Suzie Wong when Robert Lomax (William Holden) first meets