US "Champion of Death" version is cut by roughly 5 minutes. This mainly includes the "Gardening With Oyama" montage around the hour mark, as well as a few snippets when Oyama is told to return to Tokyo and continue his Karate training. However, there was also one brief cut in the finale to avoid an X rating, when Oyama pierces a henchman's head through his mouth with a bo staff. Despite the cut, due to a mastering error, the audio of the deleted shot can still be heard as Oyama disarms a gunfighter.