Long Version Was Too Long

I am glad for historical purposes to know that the DVD release is the original version of this film, but having watched and taped it back in 1990, it was overly padded to the max, and if that wasn't bad enough too many of the overly long subplots if they weren't pointless kept ending on depressing notes. The assassination plot scheme just went WAY too long, and to see it still going on after the quake was just plain silly. And then you've got the fact that at film's end, people are not aware of other family members or loved one's being dead that was also bad from my standpoint.