What s the difference between a Hong Kong movie released by Disney and an import version?
The most obvious difference is that Disney s releases are almost always dubbed, rather poorly and with excessively liberal translations, and do not include Chinese language tracks with English subtitles, despite the fact that DVDs with multiple language tracks from other manufacturers are commonplace. Most import Hong Kong DVDs are not region coded; this is not the case with Disney s DVDs. Also, the movies often have footage removed by Disney because they consider it objectionable (violence, drug use, etc.), because it contains Chinese/Asian cultural and/or political references which North American viewers may not fully understand, or (most often) simply because they want to make the movie shorter and/or change its pacing. Disney also replaces the original musical scores and sound effects, and they sometimes change the names of the movies as well (for example, the movie they have released as The Defender was originally called The Bodyguard From Beijing ). To be fair, the Disney release
