 8 minutes were added to the Special Version to bring the running time to  121 mins. Around 100 edits were made to the movie including consideringly  amping up the sound during the violent scenes. Among the scenes added to the  Special Version were: a flashback to a basketball match that Shuya and Mimura  played in school; an extended speech given by Kitano to the students; after  Mimura hacks the computer system, Kitano shuts down the power to the monitors  and acts very ambivalent to it; an alternate requiem ending.