Highlander: The Search For Vengeance - Director's Cut

Director's Cut

Producer H. Galen Walker said in an interview: "There's about seven or eight additional scenes in the Japanese version that we cut out in the U.S.—one, just for timing, and just for pace of story. That was the big issue. I'm sure Mr. Kawajiri was really unhappy about the cut, but this was what the other producers thought was best for everybody." An opening exposition text-sequence, which is traditional for Highlander films, was also added for the American version. Walker said that Kawajiri's original cut "will probably be out later this year," in an interview conducted in June 2007. More than a year later, the director's cut was finally released in Japan on December 5, 2008 with the running time of 96 minutes (10 minutes longer than the U.S. version).