Ninja III: The Domination (1984) (Collector's Edition) - June 12, 2018

[ravenus]

Originally Posted by chanbara

The scene where Sho Kosugi's character loses his eye is not missing on the earlier 2014 Blu-ray release. What is missing is the full extended scene which showed everything that led up to it...This was the original opening of the film before the producers STUPIDLY decided to cut it from the final film. I was hoping Shout! Factory would finally right this terrible wrong, but they let us all down big time.

Have some sense of perspective, dude. It's very likely that such footage doesn't exist in usable form with the rights-holders. You also don't know if the original production shot the connecting material from how the evil guy goes from Killing Sho's master in Japan to wreaking mayhem on a golf course in America. Maybe they ran out of money and decided to just start with the US portions and briskly refer to the Sho material in a flashback. Please correct me if I'm wrong but it's not like you were in the editing suite and privy to all the discussions that led to the cutting short of that material. While it would have been nice to see the full material as a bonus scene, I'm fairly sure Cannon didn't spend huge amounts storing the unused material from their movies, if not outright dumping them after the final cut was released. The theatrical cut of the film was the version I always saw and I loved it, and I definitely do not subscribe to the "let us all down" notion. I'm thrilled to have the film as is, and I look forward to the interviews with Lucinda Dickey and Jordan Benett, the stars of the theatrically released film.