Original Mandarin Cut
When the film was released in 1971 in Hong Kong, it included scenes that were later removed from all the mainstream versions. This was a result of the "1972 Hong Kong movie censorship crackdown", when martial arts films were censored for extreme violence. The The Big Boss originally included graphic scenes of a body being cut in half with a circular saw, an artery cut with a knife causing blood to spew from a character's forehead, and a notorious depiction a villain killed by "vertical partial cranial laceration" with a hand saw.
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