If you haven’t seen the original non-Miamaxed butchered version of Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer, you simply MUST run out to your local asian video store OR hop on Ebay and grab it immediately. Now, with that out of the way, it looks like Chow’s new project, Kung Fu Hustle has nailed down a release date for December 29th around the same time as House of Flying Daggers. Word around the web is that Sony (after seeing all that free money HERO generated) has already committed the cash to finance a Kung Fu Hustle sequel. Of course, if the first one fails to do well, don’t be surprised to see that commitment disappear faster than your date after you tell her you’re really into porn.
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The Chinese DVD release of Shaolin Soccer gives you the option of watching the regular Mandarin version with subtitles or the Cantonese version with special ‘jump to’ pop-up feature, that when it appears shows you a longer version of the scene shown. This would make the Canto version the longest version. Hope this helps. I’m sure the U.S. version with the cool cover art only has the Mandarin version.
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As much as I like Shaolin Soccer, I’m still a much bigger fan of the Yuen Biao/Dick Wei soccer comedy The Champions. If you can track it down on VCD/DVD, you should give it a shot… there’s no distracting wirework or iffy special effects, either!
Oops – meant Chinese. Sorry.
I have this really terrible habit of thinking of all movies from Asia as Japanese. Gotta stop doing that. I’m only insulting over a billion people – no biggie.
I actually just watched this the other night, and as far as I can tell, other than a few subtitle changes, the one on the DVD is the same as what was originally released. However, all I have to compare it to is a fansubbed DivX copy that I have. In fact, the version I watched the other night from the DVD release has 2 scenes that aren’t in the DivX copy I have.
At any rate, the “Original Chinese Version” (not Japanese, heh), was still hillarious and is one of my favorite movies ever.
Doesn’t the American DVD release of Shaolin Soccer have the butchered and non-butchered versions on it? Is the “Original Japanese Version” on the Miramax disc still different from the original cut?