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The Bottoms Up Club was a girlie bar in Hong Kong . The bar became notorious for its appearance in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun . The interior of the club evoked the interior of the club as seen in the film.

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5-584: The Club opened in the basement of Mohan's Building at 14 Hankow Road in Tsim Sha Tsui , Kowloon , in March or May 1971. One of its early managers was Pat Sephton, a former Windmill model. A 1994 court ruling requested it to remove its naked-buttocks neon sign, and to have its naked dancers wear bras or negligees. The Tsim Sha Tsui location closed in April 2004. Rising rents were cited as possible reasons for

10-580: Is a street in Tsim Sha Tsui , Kowloon , Hong Kong . It runs in the north-south direction from Salisbury Road to Haiphong Road and is 370 metres in length. It was initially named Garden Road but was renamed Hankow Road after the Hubei city of Hankow in 1909, due to the inconvenience caused by a road of the same name in Central . This Hong Kong road article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Kowloon -related article

15-600: 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 a former employee, 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. The club also appeared in

20-568: The 1994 Wong Kar-wai movie Chungking Express . Takeshi Kaneshiro and Brigitte Lin have drinks there before going to a hotel room. The club appears also in the book Zero Minus Ten by Raymond Benson (1997) where James Bond meets Sunni Pei (consume girl and striptease dancer), a member of the Hong Kong mafia "The Triads ". 22°17′48″N 114°10′16″E  /  22.2966°N 114.1710°E  / 22.2966; 114.1710 Hankow Road Hankow Road ( Chinese : 漢口道 )

25-597: The closure. The Club re-opened at the first floor of David House, 37–39 Lockhart Road in Wan Chai in May 2004, this time mainly as a sports bar , with one of the original bars being recreated in a back room. In July 2009 the club closed down. 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 ,

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