The US DVD starts insignificantly earlier.

2.4 sec


02:45 / 02:47-02:49

Mastering-error just before Ah Lung's dream sequence begins.

1.8 sec


The Chinese credits still have corresponding characters on their side - and interestingly enough the small additional comment "Lady Producer" is missing at the beginning.

US-DVD	Blu-ray

Additional material on the US-DVD
06:30-06:33 / 06:34

The bus scene begins earlier with a first shot of the waiting Li Chen.

+ 2.7 sec

Additional material on the US-DVD
07:17-08:29 / 07:18

After Ah Lung was looked at critically by the man next to him for the whistle, the shot is even longer: He turns to the side and an announcement about the bus radio begins. The bus driver has obviously switched on a horse race comment and listens now eagerly. While driving, he feverishly follows or for example goes more into the curves and you can see the effects on the passengers. Finally the race is lost for him and he stops.

How he then drives off again can be seen again in the export version.

+ 72.2 sec (= 1:12 min)

08:54 / 07:43-07:49

The passenger, who has to pee urgently, screams into the ear of the stubborn bus driver and leaves angrily.

6.3 sec

19:46 / 18:41-18:42

Moviereel-change: A few unimportant frames are lost when Ah Lung is nagged for the lost food.

1.2 sec



29:10 / 28:06-28:17

It takes a bit longer until the bunch of thugs meets Kao at night and invites him into the car.

11.3 sec

30:47 / 29:54-30:04

The thug still stands up and his colleague uncovers a few stolen paintings in the background.

9,3 sec

32:11 / 31:28-31:33

Two thugs (one of them is good old Yuen Biao, by the way) hitting Yang's inventory like mad with a hatchet.

5 sec

42:39 / 42:01-42:02

Moviereel-change: The first shot of the meeting above begins insignificantly earlier.

1.5 sec

42:54 / 42:17-42:26

First shots from above, like Ah Lung destroys the car. In between Li Chen.

8.5 sec

43:20 / 42:52-42:56

Ah Lung paints the car earlier.

4.5 sec

43:25 / 43:01-43:25

Ah Lung goes back in the same shot and then paints calmly on the bonnet.

23.7 sec

43:27 / 43:26-43:37

Further painting on the side and the follow-up shot a bit earlier.

10.3 sec

49:27 / 49:37-49:38

Jumpcut on Professor Pai's scene.

1.3 sec



Additional material on the US-DVD
49:48-50:40 / 49:59

Before the garden party starts, there is an additional scene with Professor Pai at the Asian version on the US DVD.
His servant tells that he had prepared a big ceremony and that Pai could meet the local girls. Pai reacts rejecting and one of the fighters (Leung Kar-Yan) explains to the guy that Pai would only mourn his old love, which is now married.

+ 52,4 sec

Additional material on the US-DVD
51:22-52:01 / 50:41

In the Asian version Ah Lung can be seen longer in a close up shot and still stuffs some food into himself. Kao pushes him away, whereupon Li Chen comes to him for a moment.
Eric Tsang makes a guest appearance: He is a son of an older gentleman and is immediately forced by him to drink some wine, since he would have grown up by now. Tsang then says that he would not drink any local wines but only imported ones.

Skilfully cut for export, since the close up shot is cutted off when Ah Lung just moves back. Exactly at such a moment, a somewhat more distant shot of the two is used again later, so that one would not suspect the additional part in between at all.

+ 39 sec

63:30 / 62:10-62:12

Moviereel-change: A few frames less with the close up shot of the stunt coordinator next to Bruce.

1.5 sec


71:29 / 70:11-70:12

Jumpcut to the scene of Yang just before Ah Lung joins in.

1.2 sec



84:36 / 83:18-83:22

After the kick, the scene is a bit longer.

3.7 sec

84:37 / 83:23-83:34

The following shot (after seeing Leung Kar-Yan eat for a short time) also starts much earlier - with more slow-motion dancing scenes.

10,8 sec

84:46 / 83:43-83:44

A shot of Ah Lung a little earlier.

1 sec