 Among the scenes missing from the U.S. version of the film (existing only  within the unabridged Japanese cut): the film opens on board the submarine  Nereid as Yoshizumi takes one last look at his devastated Tokyo homeland  through the eye of a video probe while Captain McCloud usurps Major Carter  for a thoughtlessly sarcastic comment about Tokyo, domestic scenes with  Yoshizumis girlfriend telling Yoshizumi that she is pregnant and her  displeasure with his decision to go to Antarctica, Yoshizumis girlfriend  losing the child from overwork, Yoshizumis girlfriend and his best friend  Tatsunos son committing suicide by sleeping pills while traveling on  speed