2nd November 2026 – (Hong Kong) Police this evening searched Club PP on Mody Road in Tsim Sha Tsui with drug-detector dogs after Japanese DJ Mao Hamasaki was allegedly spiked at a Halloween private party there, as she and her manager, Mak, later appeared at the same venue with heads down and no interviews.
Ms Hamasaki, 33, a former adult-film actress now working as DJ Mao, was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the early hours of 1st November after collapsing at the club. Tests reportedly returned positive for four substances, including so-called Happy water, cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine. Officers have classified the case as administering poison with intent to cause harm. She had noticed white powder-like sediment in her glass.
This afternoon she left hospital by taxi with her manager. The manager later indicated they would go to a police station to record a statement. By about 8pm, when reporters returned to Club PP on Mody Road, plain-clothes officers were examining the premises and a police dog team was assisting. Ms Hamasaki and her manager then arrived at the club; she kept her eyes down and took no questions, and it was unclear whether they were there to help the inquiry.
At noon, she posted a long Japanese account on X describing clearer consciousness and a hoped-for discharge once a psychiatric review this afternoon found nothing major wrong. Asked how she felt on leaving hospital, she replied politely with a simple “OK” and thanks, and flashed an OK hand gesture.
In the post, she said she finished a first Halloween DJ set, then moved to a second booking. Before going on she drank about two orange-flavoured cocktail shots. Sediment at the bottom of the glass looked cloudy, but she took it for fruit pulp. Roughly 40 minutes to an hour into the second set her memory blurred and her eyes burned dry. She toasted again with the same orange drink; soon her body locked, she could not move, and her memory cut out. She next woke in an ambulance amid convulsions.
Doctors, she wrote, warned that the episode had been dangerous and that four drug markers were positive. Calling it her first real brush with drugs, she urged guests never to leave opened drinks unattended and said she would cooperate with police after discharge, making the Japanese thread her last personal public word on the case while she rests.
Her manager, Mak, had earlier said she first played in a Wan Chai restaurant, then accepted a big client’s invitation to continue at the Tsim Sha Tsui private venue — Club PP on Mody Road — despite the team’s usual reluctance about such bookings. She lost a Liar’s Dice round and drank what they thought was a sweet cocktail; after her set she collapsed and began seizing, and he insisted on calling police and sending her to hospital, where she spent time in intensive care. After the scare he briefly berated a female venue figure in the street; the club was shut when reporters called earlier, with staff declining to speak.
