Alternate versions

The BBFC cut 34 seconds for its cinema and video release. Notable scenes include Gou Fei playing with his butterfly knife, Gou Fei cutting someone's wrist, Judge cutting Gou Fei's hand and Lau Ngang masturbating.

The UK "Hong Kong Legends" DVD features the film fully uncut, as well as with an edited (subdued) music track as director Ringo Lam originally intended. The English dub doesn't have the subdued music track.

German version had to be heavily cut for violence in order to secure the FSK-18 rating. The uncut version was released on DVD unrated with light SPIO/JK approval.

The Hong Kong Laserdisc release is severely edited to remove finger and wrist cutting, a gun shot through the cheek, bad guy suffering under Chow's bike, and several gunshots to the head. The Tai Seng DVD release is the original uncut version.

Taiwanese video includes extended version of the car scene with Sam and Virgin and has a total of 3 more minutes than Hong Kong video.

In the original cut of the film, in the scene after the car chase where he forces him to go and kill Gou Fei, Judge also tells Sam to bring him Gou Fei's eyes as proof of his death. Sam can't kill Gou Fei, so he cuts the eyes out of one of the bodies of the family in the house. Judge takes the eyes and eats them. This was also a payoff of the scene from earlier in the movie where Judge compliments Gou Fei's "pretty eyes" when they first meet. If you watch Sam in the normal versions of the film, as he comes out of the house you can see his right hand is clenched and holding something - the eyes, of course.

Despite every prior UK video release of the film being cut in some way (for violence, violence against women, banned weapons, sexual content). It was release without any cuts and fully intact by Hong Kong Legends DVD.