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God bless those Koreans. They know a marketing opportunity when they see one and they go for it with gusto.

Case in point: Steven Chow's Kung Fu Hustle releases and sets all sorts of box office records throughout Asia and, voila! A three disc release of Chow's brilliant Shaolin Soccer. And what have they put on those three discs? Why, three different versions of the film, of course, all apparently English subtitled, including DTS tracks and region free. Plus a stack of other bonus features. You get the original cut, the extended version and the Miramax cut-to-pieces version. Now that is a release worth calling an 'Ultimate Edition'.

I've already got a Hong Kong issue of this but I'll be making the switch for three reasons - I'd love to have all three versions of the film, the video quality should be higher and the subtitle quality pretty much has to be higher. Miramax was going after US based importers of Shaolin Soccer pretty hard a while back, so you'll probably need to go through a Korean based seller for this, though these guys are in the US and are currently taking pre-orders.

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