[bitwize]

It's basically the inspo for every cyberpunk dystopia ever from Blade Runner on forwards. Right down to the black markets, prostitutes, drugs, unlicensed doctors and dentists plying their trades, etc.

Most recently, the setting of the video game Stray is basically Kowloon with the serial numbers filed off.

[KMag]

Not just the Kowloon Walled City, but other locations in Hong Kong inspire lots of cyberpunk scenes. After living in Hong Kong for a few years, I re-watched Ghost in the Shell and was surprised to recognize the final scene as taking place under the circular pedestrian overpass on Queens Road, just east of Victoria Park.

[satvikpendem]

Sadly all the neon (and other noble gas installations) in Hong Kong and elsewhere is going away. It is sometimes but not always replaced by LED which doesn't necessarily give that same aesthetic.

[creer]

And one thing that was great in Blade Runner was to recognize "the tyrrany of weather". Instead of erasing that from their source material. Because many Los Angeles concept teams might not even understand that. The designers cherished it and made us of it, for lighting, for mood, for how the business stalls might be set up. Still great to this day.