Bottoms Up Club

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.^[1]^[2] The interior of the club evoked the interior of the club as seen in the film.

History

The Club opened in the basement of Mohan's Building

sports bar, with one of the original bars being recreated in a back room.^[5]

In July 2009 the club closed down.^[citation needed]

In popular culture

At the time of the film, the club was located in Tsim Sha Tsui, 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.^[5]

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.

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".

References

^ ^a ^b ^c AFP: "Hong Kong's most famous strip club Bottoms Up to close", Mar 22, 2004 (full article here Archived May 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine)
^ The Boston Globe: "Hong Kong feels like a movie set because it is", July 15, 2007
^ Mohan's Building (1963–2013) at gwulo.com
^ traveldk.com – Around Kowloon: Bottom's Up
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e TIMEasia: "Night School", July 19, 2004 (archive)
^ The Sunday Times Magazine: "Jittery City – Hong Kong now the party's nearly over", October 19, 1986 (archive)
^ "DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Hong Kong", 2003, reproduced on Financial Times website
^ James Bong in Hong Kong Archived October 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ Smokefree.com.hk Archived October 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Bottoms Up toasts its new location in Wan Chai". South China Morning Post. 21 May 2004.

External links

Gwulo.com entry
1973 advertisement for the Bottoms Up Club^{[dead link]}
The sign of the Bottoms Up Club in 1985
Entrance of the Bottoms Up Club (Tsim Sha Tsui): [1] [2]
Inside the Bottoms Up Club (Tsim Sha Tsui) Archived 2012-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
Sign of the Bottoms Up Club (Wan Chai)
England, Vaudine (December 12, 2012). "Hong Kong's lavish nightclubs lose their appeal". The Guardian. Retrieved October 15, 2013.

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[close-1] AFP: "Hong Kong's most famous strip club Bottoms Up to close", Mar 22, 2004 (full article here Archived May 11, 2013, at the Wayback Machine)

[2] The Boston Globe: "Hong Kong feels like a movie set because it is", July 15, 2007

[3] Mohan's Building (1963–2013) at gwulo.com

[4] traveldk.com – Around Kowloon: Bottom's Up

[night-5] TIMEasia: "Night School", July 19, 2004 (archive)

[6] The Sunday Times Magazine: "Jittery City – Hong Kong now the party's nearly over", October 19, 1986 (archive)

[7] "DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Hong Kong", 2003, reproduced on Financial Times website

[8] James Bong in Hong Kong Archived October 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[9] Smokefree.com.hk Archived October 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[10] "Bottoms Up toasts its new location in Wan Chai". South China Morning Post. 21 May 2004.

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