- The Taiwan version has a scene where it shows Jenny sitting in her dressing room while hearing the gunshots around 5 minutes into the movie.
- The first British retail release on VHS from Palace Video contained two very brief moments not available on either later VHS-releases and, or the current DVD-release. They occur during the shootout in the church, and are as follows;
- A short scene where Chow Yun Fat and Danny Lee rises from a crouching position and starts to shoot, before they start walking towards the entrance.
- A short scene where Chow Yun Fat glides on the floor on his stomach towards the entrance of the church, shooting a gun in each hand. (A part of this scene are shown in the theatrical trailer of the film.)
- In order to be commercially released in Germany as the uncut version was indexed by the SPIO/JK, 2 minutes and 45 seconds were cut to reduce violence in some scenes for a FSK-18 rating. The FSK-16 rated version was further cut by almost 20 minutes and has almost all violent bits removed. Finally in November of 2015 the indexing was lifted, however the uncut version just only now got a FSK-18 rating in August of 2023.
- Out of print Criterion Collection DVD features the following five deleted scenes:
- The first is a scene where inspector Li is waiting outside the club where Jenny is singing (right after we saw him inside). Jenny is accosted by three drunken business men, and Li comes to her rescue. Obviously, this mirrors the earlier scene where Jeff came to her rescue. It also includes a nice little reveal where we see that Jeff has seen the whole thing. The scene continues with Li taking Jenny back to her apartment, and Li seeing Jeff watching from outside.
- The second scene occurs right after the shootout at Jeff's apartment. Inspector Li arrives on the scene just as Jeff is leaving.
- The third scene is Jeff and Jenny driving from the airport and arriving at Sidney's safe house.
- The fourth deleted scene is Jeff and Jenny having breakfast at the house. Then Sidney arrives.
- The last deleted scene occurs right after the impromptu surgery by the creek. The Hitman With No Eyes arrives on the scene and finds the bandages.
- The subtitled dialogue in which Jenny is being mugged and Jeffrey intervenes, "Hey, let's rob her", is omitted in the Laserdisc version but present in the U.S. VHS version.
- The Criterion DVD changes the "nicknames" of Jeffery Chow and Inspector Li from "Mickey Mouse" and "Dumbo" to "Numb-nuts" and "Butt-head"
- When screened on Film Four in the UK, the ITC ordered them to cut a scene were Chow Yun Fat stabs a man; the rest was left uncut.
- Also available in a cut 102 min. R-rated version.
- The version shown on UK's Channel 4 on 15 April 2003 changes the "nicknames" of Jeffery Chow and Inspector Li from "Mickey Mouse" and "Dumbo" to "Jerry" and "Tom"
- Original Hong Kong and international versions have slightly different soundtracks in two scenes:
- in the tram you hear some music in the international version, whereas in the original version there is no music
- in Joe's appartment after the gunfight you hear the song from the bar (international) or a different song (original) respectively
- The 141-minute Taiwanese version differs mainly in that it has scenes (some of which have been reprised in the Criterion and Hong Kong Legends DVDs) that were dropped by John Woo for the sake of pacing.
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