Over the years, many asian film producers have decided to sell international versions of their films to non-asian distributors. The main reasons? Cultural differences, asian films aren’t as popular now… That’s how Woo’s Red Cliff has been heavily cut down from 4-hour length to 2 hours. Guess why some people felt something was missing.
Just to name few, there was also Miike’s Django, Kim Jee-Woon’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird… and we can now add Takashi Miike (him again!)’s 13 Assassins to the list. The version we may watch in the West should be 17-min shorter. According to FilmBizAsia;
This version, which omits an eve-of-battle bordello sequence that provides some sexual relief from the movie’s thoroughgoing male-ness, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and is being sold in the West. The complete version easily sustains its length on the big screen and should be any buyer’s version of choice.
Hoping this time we can avoid the boring is-it-the-good-version game.
Until then, to give you another idea, check these comparisons for;
• Kim Jee-woon’s I Saw The Devil
• Na Hong-jin’s Yellow Sea
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