New Line Cinema Edit
New Line Cinema acquired the film for international distribution and commissioned a new music score and English dub (with participation from Jackie Chan). A scene of Keung's airplane to New York was added to the opening credits. Two scenes added exclusively for the international version are Keung and Nancy escaping from the nightclub after the bikies spot them together, and White Tiger taking a golf shot before a subordinate approaches him with his phone. Neither of these scenes were in the original Hong Kong release.
In comparison to the Hong Kong version, 17 minutes of cuts were made, including:
- Some more footage of Keung and Uncle Bill in the car talking about the supermarket.
- A scene in which two bikie gang members extort some money while Keung's Uncle Bill is showing his supermarket to Elaine, and then steal some items from beside the cash register.
- Keung does more comical antics in front of the one-way mirror in Uncle Bill's office.
- The motorcycle race was trimmed slightly.
- A scene where Uncle Bill and his wife sing a lament in Chinese at their wedding. This scene is restored in the US cable version.
- Keung doing more exercises before he rolls into a headstand.
- Keung spots more shoplifting by the gang's Cantonese-speaking member from the office with the one-way mirror.
- A lecture by Keung on martial arts after fighting off the biker gang the first time.
- An entire scene in the morning after the night of the alley ambush by the bikies, where Keung arrives at the supermarket to find it has been robbed by some youths. Simultaneously, the two gangsters from the beginning of the film return to extort money, only to be scared off by Keung. Immediately after, the entire biker gang show up, Keung tries to intimidate them, but eventually calls the police. This scene is restored in the US cable version. This scene also explains why the motorcycle gang chases Keung to the parking garage.
- On the parking garage roof top, Keung begs for a lady's help, but he inadvertently scares her away.
- More angles of the parking garage jump are shown.
- The climactic fight between Keung and the gang in their house was trimmed slightly.
- The long haired syndicate thug asking Keung if he has seen any diamonds.
- Two policemen waiting for Angelo in their car as he attempts to retrieve the diamonds.
- A full scene after one of Angelo's men is murdered by a syndicate using a tree-shredder, where Keung and Nancy return to the apartment with shopping. A displeased Elaine emerges and describes what happened to the store.
- Slightly more footage of Keung trying to bargain about the diamonds with the gang in the boathouse.
It has been reported that the American Movie Channel (AMC) aired some of these scenes during their broadcast of the film.
The new soundtrack replaced Chan's song over the closing credits with the song "Kung Fu" by the band Ash, the lyrics of which mention Jackie Chan, as well as other Asian figures and characters ubiquitous in the west.
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