 |  |  | | | [Ground Zero's] Platinuim version of "Executioner From Shaoin" has one added and one shortened fight scene. Before you could get it on DVD (at least in the part of the country I live in), you could only get bootleg copies and all the copies that I bought or rented did not have the opening fight scene with the priest and Pei Mei. So when I first put this DVD in I was really excited. But for some reason the "second attempt of Hung Hsi Quan to kill Pei is cut short. And the travesty of it is they cut out the part with the director, Liu Chia Lang, fighting Hung Hsi Quan using the three section staff!! And also the very first fight scene I talked about, and a few others, they took the sound out for some reason. |
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| During (I believe) Chen Kuan Tai's last visit to try to kill the monk, he battles guards on the steps. During this sequence the director has a small cameo (Master Lau is tops!!!) as a guard that attacks the hero with a three-section staff. It's brief, (maybe 40 seconds) but magical kung fu nonetheless. This one scene is missing from both DVD versions [by Ground Zero and PanMedia]. I suspect that the prints come from England where an a**hole (whose name slips my mind) from the censorship board outlawed the nunchaku (and usually the 3-section staff) from appearing in films after the initial release of Bruce Lee's films. Apparently, a few excited youths injured themselves with the weapon (it takes practice, kids!), including a blindness-causing strike to a head. For the record, the [censorship board] guy either retired or died, and just this year the Bruce films were finally released with the "chuck" scenes intact. Can you imagine seeing ENTER THE DRAGON without the nunchaku sequence? Blasphemy! |
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