10 More Movies That Have Different Endings In Different Countries

Wong Kar-wai is widely regarded as one of the greatest writer-directors of past four decades, and his much-sought-after movies are made all the more valuable by the relative difficulty of obtaining them, with most of his titles not receiving any cinematic releases in Western countries, and physical media being historically hard to come by.

Thus, the arrival of his martial arts drama The Grandmaster to US screens in 2013 was something of an event. Unfortunately, the film's release saw drastic changes made to the original cut, led by Harvey "Scissorhands" Weinstein. Unlike many of his other celluloid massacres, however, Weinstein dissected Wong’s kung fu drama with not only the director's permission, but his assistance in the editing suite.

Among the many additions, removals and edits is a refocusing of the film's ending, clearly in the hope that a more direct and extended helping of a cultural icon - Bruce Lee - would get American audiences on side.

This ending focuses more on a young Lee - the most famous student of the film's subject, grandmaster Ip Man - and includes, amongst other things, additional shots of the young martial artist and a dramatic title card announcing who he is. This didn't go down well, and the US version of Grandmaster is regarded as considerably inferior to the original.