 The original Hong Kong version runs 38 minutes longer than the butchered  American version.  The scenes with Wind and Cloud as young children are cut  the most, and the bamboo forest battle between Lord Conquer and Winds father  is one of many scenes missing altogether.  The American version offers an  English translation of the onscreen character names that accompany each  characters first apperance in the film The cuts for violence, presumably  made to secure a PG