A: Unlikely. Fortune Star has not announced any plans, and the original negatives for the most controversial scenes are reportedly missing. If you found this article useful, please support legal film preservation. Consider purchasing the Eureka Blu-ray or donating to the Hong Kong Film Archive.
A: Tsui Hark has always maintained that no real animal was harmed; the scene used a combination of taxidermy and quick cuts. However, many viewers and censors disagreed. The footage remains lost or destroyed. A: Unlikely
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The plot follows three disaffected, wealthy young people in British-era Hong Kong who, out of sheer boredom and nihilism, engage in a series of escalating "pranks": setting fire to homeless people's shelters, torturing animals, and eventually moving toward murder. A fourth character—a mysterious Vietnamese refugee (played with haunting intensity by Lo Hoi-pang)—becomes entangled in their spiral of violence. The film ran into immediate trouble with Hong Kong’s censors. At the time, Hong Kong was still a British colony, and the government feared that scenes of random urban terrorism and firebombing might inspire copycat crimes. After a limited release in May 1980, authorities ordered all prints to be seized and destroyed . The footage remains lost or destroyed