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Region 4 Winners and Losers

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Happy Times (Xingfu Shiguang) (2001)R1

    The US Region 1 release has three trailers. Apart from that, reviews indicate that the video quality is better than on the UK Region 2. The latter appears to be identical to the Region 4.

    There is also a Region 3 release from China with the film entitled Happy Time. This features a different translation for the English subtitles and has an alternative ending running 9 minutes. Allegedly this was the original ending which Yimou was asked to change, but if that is the case it does not make sense that it would be allowed to be included on a mainland DVD release. This version also runs shorter than the US version due to censorship, and apparently the image quality is poor.

    None of the available releases seems definitive, but the Region 1 looks the safest bet at the moment.