I read that the U.S. version, is 40 minutes longer according to this article:
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=404045
But the U.S. version is only 91 minutes, which would mean the the Japanese version would have to be 51 minutes only. Is this true?
I've often wondered just how long does a movie have to be before it's qualified as "feature-length". For example, in Leonard Maltin's TV movie book, they have the "The Adventures of Superman" two-parter episode "The Forgotten People" listed as a movie "Superman and the Mole Men". It's listed with a running time of 58 minutes. That's considered "feature-length"?
Annoying the world since 1960!
That was originally a theatrical feature and from 1951. Movies could be about 1 hour then. David Cronenberg's 1st 2 films from the 60s were only about 45 minutes and considered features in Canada.
This movie was Japanese, originally, and not American. Perhaps they saw it differently. Seems like 80 minutes is the shortest for US releases to be called a feature since the 60s atleast.
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Actually the original Japanese film was the same running time as the US version but what the Americans did was cut out a half an hour of scenes of the Japanese characters interacting and replaced them with the US footage in order to 'Americanise' the movie.
They did the same in the original too as they cut several scenes of the film and inserted the scenes with Raymond Burr.
Actually the original Japanese film was the same running time as the US version but what the Americans did was cut out a half an hour of scenes of the Japanese characters interacting and replaced them with the US footage in order to 'Americanise' the movie.
They did the same in the original too as they cut several scenes of the film and inserted the scenes with Raymond Burr.