Alternate versions for
Yat goh hiu yan (1997) More at IMDb Pro »

• US version is cut by 20+ min. from the original Hong Kong version.
  
  
• Changes to the US version over the HK version:
  • A completely different musical score. HK version is more sedate; US version is fast-paced and upbeat.
  • The opening shots of the cooking show are the second scene in the HK version, with the first Giancarlo scene coming first. Also, the shot of the girl being buried alive goes on for several seconds longer in the HK version.
  
  
  
• Scenes only in the HK version:
  • When Sonny and Nancy are watching the tape for the first time, Nancy gets shoved when she takes the tape out to "watch cartoons." Baggio comes in and takes them both into the kitchen to watch Jackie cook.
  • In the scene where Diana is accosted at her apartment by the thugs, Diana tries to fight her way free and winds up getting smashed to the floor and kneed in the back.
  • Another slow motion shot of Diana running down the street in her underwear appears when the thugs are chasing her.
  • When Jackie and Lakisha are waiting at the airport, their conversation has several more lines. Lakisha: "Are you going to marry her[Miki]?" Jackie: "Of course." Lakisha: "Do you like me?" Jackie: "Sure!" Lakisha: "Yeah, but you never asked me out!" Jackie: "Well, we already work and eat together... what's up with you?" Lakisha: "...Nothing." At this point Jackie sees Miki and calls her name, prompting Lakisha to say "What?" The U.S. version only has Lakesha's last line, which sounds awkward.
  • During the horse-and-carriage chase, the cart narrowly misses colliding head-on with a street trolly. There is also a shot of people being stampeded off the sidewalk.
  • The horse-and-carriage scene on the sidewalk, with the shop signs, is slightly longer in the HK version but has obvious continuity errors.
  • The "cricket bat" fight betwen Lakisha and Diana goes on for a few more frames, with Diana getting slugged with the bat and then throwing a chair at Lakisha in retaliation. There's also a brief scene here where Jackie comforts Miki on the way back to the apartment.
  • The scene where Giancarlo slaps his henchman with his own tie originally had the phone call for the rendezvous at the Golden Garden construction site appended to it.
  • Right before Miki walks in on Lakesha scratching Jackie's back, Miki looks in the bathroom mirror and asks herself what she's done to deserve her problems, but then resolves to cheer up for Jackie's sake.
  • The scene where Jackie and Miki sit together in the darkened living room runs a bit longer. Miki: "I came here for just one thing." Jackie: "To buy clothes, right? The clothes here are wonderful."
  • When the thugs search the house, Lakesha and Diana both get kicked in the stomach by them (in a matching-shot gag).
  • More shots of Jackie being shadowed by police when he goes to trade the tape for Miki, and a couple more establishing shots of Melbourne locations.
  • A brief shot of Romeo and Detective Morrison arguing in the control room over how to deal with the way Jackie is being strung along by the kidnappers.
  • A brief shot of Miki being kicked in the stomach before she gets hauled off by one of the Demons near the bridge.
  • When Jackie is accosted by the Demons and hauled off in the van, they almost throw him into traffic before deciding to check to see if the tape he has is the right one.
  • During the knife fight in the van, Jackie bites one of his attacker's nipples!
  • When Giancarlo finds Miki and the Demon gang leader, he slugs her to the floor and demands to know where his cocaine is. "I gave it to the cops," she says. To "make her understand", Giancarlo has one of the Demons put in a stranglehold with rope, beats him savagely, then shoots him.
  • When the Demon gang leader breaks loose, she stabs one of Giancarlo's men in the back with her knife. She gets shot at while diving out the window.
  • Brief shots of Miki getting slapped by Giancarlo and thrown around by Giancarlo's thugs.
  • A scene where Romeo talks to the Demon gang leader in the hospital. In the next bed, a severely-beaten Diana murmurs to Romeo: "Remember, this is my exclusive."
  • Right after the faked phone call, where Giancarlo kicks Jackie across the room, Miki runs up to Giancarlo to stop him. Giancarlo responds by slapping Miki repeatedly.
  • A scene in the US version that is NOT in the HK version is the dinner scene, where Baggio talks about Jackie's parents.
  
  
  
• The Demons gang are called The Wolves in the Hong Kong version.
  
  
• In the Hong Kong version, much of the script is different compared to original English dialog it was shot in.
  
  

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