Original American Release on home video deleted much of the middle of the movie reducing the running time from 122 minutes to 88 minutes and eliminating many important plot points such as the introduction of Jubei's Father.
Many public domain DVD copies share the same VHS transfer of the 88 min. US release of Arena Home Video,while some public domain VHS to DVD transfers have inferior color quality.
The 88 min. version was placed in various public domain copies in a Sonny Chiba DVD collection set.
In the UK PAL VTC home video release a scene of Inshun Hozoe attempting to rape the Koga Ninja Woman was spliced out for a few seconds edited straight to the part where he kills her. The Arena home video 88 min.release and public domain DVDs share the same print.
Many of the Arena Home video releases rips off the UK version of the movie with the running time of 88 mins. While the original US uncut home video release became lost and sold to alot of movie collectors.
Some prints of the remastered uncut bilingual DVD edition from Tokyo Shock had a 2 min. scene deleted involving Musashi Myamoto trying to break in Moramasa's Hut.