Golden Leg: 'What is the meaning of this check? Do you want me to cheat?' He eventually takes the check - this explains why he fails to score in the next scene. Golden Leg isn't injured yet and so he initially doesn't accept the check, yells at Hung and ties his shoe laces on top of his head.

Golden Leg and Hung are in the locker room and Hung tries to bribe him.

The Director's Cut (DC) features much longer opening credits (89 sec).Īfter that another important scene is missing in the IV. The international version (IV) shows only 4 screens for a total of 16 sec, then a soccer ball is shooting through the titel and the movie starts. Total cut length: 1471 sec (=24:31 min)Īll time and duration designations are in PAL.Īfter the production logos the completely different opening credits start. 103 cuts, 28 of them might be due to censorship Director's Cut: 107:39 min with ending credits (105:37 min w/o) Running times always refer to the shortened version- International Cut: 85:45 min with ending credits (81:11 min w/o) The international version also features different ending credits and a new sound track, the latter won't be mentioned in this comparison, though. Those cuts have been marked as censorship although it isn't always clear if this is really censored or if this was done in order to tighten the movie. I won't start a discussion about whether this was necessary in a slapstick movie like this, but the international version was cut at some to some extent questionable points.

It is remarkable that besides any shortenings of story elements some cuts removing violence have been made, too. The HK version only was cut at two points in the movie and the ending credits are missing as well. The differences between these aren't that many though. All in all there are three versions of this movie available:Ī comparison between the first two versions is also available on this site. The international version lacks about 25 minutes. Unfortunately, the crazy cult soccer action comedy 'Shaolin Soccer' with and by Stephen Chow has been cut heavily for the international audience. Comparison between the heavily cut international Version and the uncut Director's Cut.

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