Cuts
An older version of the script (104 pages) had a slightly different outline and had a more serious tone to it, less tongue in cheek.
The shooting script was 95 pages and includes a longer opening scene that was filmed featuring Kenner's former Japanese partner Eddie Yosuto. There was also a chase scene after the Japanese bath scene where Dolph and Brandon go after the fleeing yakuza, it ended up in an action scene set in a mall.
In the US, around 13 seconds were cut in order to avoid an NC-17, namely: -An extra topless shot during the pool party. -Some of Yoshida caressing Angel before chopping off her head was cut. Her initial decapitation lost an extra shot, reducing it from two to one. Later, when her severed head is shown, the head is shown once due to an extra shot being cut. -When Kenner stabs a guy underwater, a brief closeup of him stabbing him in the gut and twisting the knife around was edited out. -In the version screened for test audiences, Minako's rape was longer and more brutal.
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