 A better tomorrow 2 originally ran about 160min. Tsui Hark insisted that the  film should be shortened to a commercially viable length (which in Hong Kong  is considered under 120 min, so theatre owners could show the film at least 8  times a day). Woo refused to make any cuts, so Hark secretly cut stuff out  while Woo secretly put the things Hark had cut out back in. The two had a  falling out and coulnt agree what should be cut and what not. So they had  the film recut by the "Cinema City Editing Unit", which meant that they sent  each reel of the film to one of Cinema Citys editors, who would then go to  work on his particular reel. There was no overall supervision whatsoever by  either Woo or Hark... Each of these editors just cut things out as they saw  fit, then they returned the reels. What they came up with is now the official  version of A better tomorrow 2...Woos "Directors Cut" was only shown once  to film executives in Hong Kong