Bottoms Up Club
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The Bottoms Up Club is a girlie bar in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The bar is famous for its appearance in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.[1][2] The interior of the club evokes the interior of the club as seen in the film.
The Club opened at 14 Hankow Road[3] in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, in March[4] or May[1] 1971. One of its early managers was Pat Sephton,[4][5] a former Windmill model.[6] A 1994 court ruling requested it to remove its naked-buttocks neon sign, and to have its naked dancers wear bras or negliges. The Tsim Sha Tsui location closed on April 2004. Rising rents were cited as possible reasons for the closure.[1][4] The Club re-opened at the first floor of David House, 37-39 Lockhart Road in Wan Chai[7][8] in 2004, this time mainly as a sports bar, with one of the original bars being recreated in a back room.[4]
July 2009 - Club closed down.[citation needed]
[edit] In popular culture
At the time of the film, the club was located in Tsim Sha Tsui, on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbour. This gave rise to a movie blooper when Bond, played by Roger Moore, is picked up outside the club by British agents posing as police, and is told he is being taken to a police station on the Kowloon side (of Hong Kong harbour), when he is in fact already there.
According to one source, while the film features footage of the exterior of the Club, the scenes inside the Club were actually filmed in a studio in the United Kingdom, where it had been recreated.[4]
The club also appeared in the 1994 Wong Kar Wai movie Chungking Express. Takeshi Kaneshiro and Brigitte Lin have drinks there before going to a hotel room.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c AFP: "Hong Kong's most famous strip club Bottoms Up to close", Mar 22, 2004 (full article here)
- ^ The Boston Globe: "Hong Kong feels like a movie set because it is", July 15, 2007
- ^ traveldk.com - Around Kowloon: Bottom's Up
- ^ a b c d e TIMEasia: "Night School", July 19, 2004
- ^ The Sunday Times Magazine: "Jittery City - Hong Kong now the party's nearly over", October 19, 1986
- ^ "DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Hong Kong", 2003, reproduced on Financial Times website
- ^ James Bong in Hong Kong
- ^ Smokefree.com.hk
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