ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA:
I've seen a 2-disc P-DVD (China) version, presumably copied from R1. The Philippine R3 is a censored version.
Congratulations, Warner Philippines. You now have the dubious distinction of being the distributor that released the first and only censored DVD in the Philippine market.
At the R3 hearse scene (chap. 28 at 97 mins.):
1. There's a delibrate frame error - the picture is framed higher to hide the woman's pubic region.
2. The woman's boobs were censored with a Gaussian Blur filter.
Oh wow! You're RIGHT - I checked my R3 (which I bought at full Php 895 price!
) against my old VHS full-frame edition. The framing error I might excuse, since I'm not sure if the film was shot in open matte and just "opened up" at the top and bottom for full-frame video release, but the blur is something else.
What makes this especially weird is that the first breast exposure in the film, at 11 minutes into the film in the puppet theater, when the girl gets her nipples poked with a gun, is UNCUT on the same R3 DVD. What is this, selective censoring???
Maybe Warner can give us an official explanation for this very odd editing.