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October 28, 2005

NEW TRAILER FOR JOHNNIE TO'S ELECTION

Election3_webMonkeyPeaches has this link to the Mandarin-language trailer for Johnnie To's new movie, ELECTION.

The trailer features a lot more footage from the movie, including some harsh action scenes, yet somehow they manage to finish it all up by making it look like a fun and happy buddy picture.

October 28, 2005 at 10:18 AM in News | Permalink

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There's already a Chinese DVD of Election available at Sensasian, distributor listed as "Liao Ning Wen Hua".

Is this the cut, re-edited Chinese version of Election...? A bootleg...?

Seems too good to be true at $5.99

Posted by: Richard | Oct 31, 2005 1:48:47 PM

What's the cut version? Is there a cut that was made for the Mainland? I sort of thought any Mainland release was out of the question, due to all the triad stuff, but it looks like I was wrong. So what can they cut to make it palatable?

Posted by: Grady Hendrix | Nov 1, 2005 11:14:05 AM

I just answered my own question: if you go to the Asian Cinema Discussion board on www.mhvf.net there's a post on the ELECTION thread from Yvonne Teh in Malaysia saying that "yes, there is a Mainland version of ELECTION, it's playing in Malaysia, and it has a happy ending."

Also,

Posted by: Grady Hendrix | Nov 1, 2005 1:46:30 PM

stop mainland piracy and nonsensical happy endings or reworkings of films...for example how could they release infernal affairs 3 after the re-edit of infernal affairs 1...only an idiot or mainlander would not raise hell

Posted by: block prc | Nov 12, 2005 12:18:41 PM

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