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• The UK Cinema version and Premier Asia DVD version feature a brand new orchestral soundtrack composed especially for the UK release.
  
  
• For the French release, a new soundtrack was composed by French hip hop and R'n'B singers. The subplot featuring Muay's older sister is missing.
  
  
• The sentence "Hi. Speilberg / Let do it together", with misspelling and all, is seen handwritten on a dark garage door in front of which two men are street-fighting. It was added afterwards to the film's Asian DVD edition, and the copy shown at the Cannes Film Festival, but it is not in the original cut, and the Thai VCD edition.
  
  
• The Hong Kong VCD released by EDKO has Thai and Cantonese soundtracks and includes Chinese and English subtitles. The Hong Kong DVD version from EDKO doesn't have English subtitles. The Thai DVD doesn't have English subtitles either. According to Bey Logan's commentary on the UK DVD release, this is deliberate to make the film's accessibility much more difficult.
  
  
• A significant portion of the music from the Thai version has been changed for the American release.
  
  
• Some versions of the film omit the breaking of George's arm by a villain and the subsequent shot of Ting breaking that villain's leg.
  
  
• American cut (and possibly all cuts released under Europa) omits 90% of the subplot featuring Muay's older sister, Ngek. The only scene she appears in is when Don causes her to overdose on cocaine. The cuts to this version creates confusion as to why Muay is upset in the scene when George tells her "people die".
  
  
• Two cuts were released in Hong Kong. The theatrical release was identical to the Thai cut except the now infamous "bone-breaking" shots were both cut to receive a "Category II B" rating. This cut of the film is also used for the EDKO Hong Kong VCD. However, the original uncut version, with both the arm and leg breaking shots, was given a DVD release in Hong Kong, but received a "Category III" rating.
  
  
• British film distributor Premier Asia is giving the film a limited theatrical release and a special 2-disc edition DVD release soon after. This release, however, will be a Premier Asia exclusive cut. It is currently said that it will be the original Thai cut featuring four minutes of footage cut from the versions released under Luc Besson. However, it will once again feature a new music score, this time the entire score is planned to be replaced. However, unlike Besson's rap music sound track, this is possibly going to lean more towards a more "professional" score. This being said, this will be the third official music score for the film. First being the original Thai score, second being Besson's score (which featured a few music cues from the Thai cut), and the third being the new Premier Asia score.
  
  

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