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Meng long guo jiang (1972)

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• All above mentioned cuts to the original US release were restored to the new 2005 DVD release. Plus an additional scene of Lee being made fun of by the gang for saying "excuse me" to one of the crooks after bumping into him.
  
  
• In the original Mandarin Hong Kong version Tony Liu, Unicorn Chan, Malisa Longo, Fu Ching Chen, Chin Ti, Wu Ngan, and Robert Chen were credited in the films intro; in all other and later released versions of the film they are not.
  
  
• The original UK theatrical version was heavily cut by around 6 minutes by the BBFC to edit scenes of violence, and the 1986 video release lost a further 1 min 11 secs of footage from the nunchaku fight scene. The cuts were fully restored for the 2001 Medusa release, though the later 2005 Universal DVD featured the same print as the edited 1986 video.
  
  
• In the original release there were several scenes that were edited from the US version:
  • One scene was when Bruce Lee was walking in the airport. He tried to tell a little kid he was hungry, but because of the language barrier, his gestures scared the little kid;
  • In another scene, Bruce flushes the toilet several times because he's never seen one before.
  • The scene where Bruce walks into the airport restaurant and has trouble communicating with the waitress;
  • The prostitute scene;
  • In the fight with Chuck Norris, Bruce kicks him in the head three times. This scene was later shown at the beginning of "Game of Death (1978)."
  
  
  
• US version also includes track music of John Barry's score from Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
  
  
• Also in the HK version when uncle stabs Tony Liu we see him presumably bleeding or dying. In the US version this scene was blurred out
  
  
• New Zealand theatrical and videotape versions were originally cut to minimize the use of nunchakus in the alley-fight sequence, although the censors later allowed this scene to remain intact in the documentary Curse of the Dragon (1993). In 2005 the cuts were also waived for the Region 4 DVD release of "Way of the Dragon".
  
  

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