The Winner (1996) [Japanese Cut]

2
(1)

A story about a man who can’t seem to do anything but win at the tables in Vegas. This, of course, brings hustlers out of the woodwork intent on using him for financial gain. One of them is the man’s brother who, incidentally, is trying to find who it was that killed their father, while still another is a woman who has schemes of her own.

Director: Alex Cox.
Writer: Wendy Riss.
Stars: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent D’Onofrio, Richard Edson, Saverio Guerra, Delroy Lindo, Michael Madsen, Billy Bob Thorton, Frank Whaley, Luis Contreras, Ed Pansullo, Sy Richardson, Craig Vincent, Biff Yeager, Del Zamora, Roger Jennings, Alex Cox.
Cinematographer: Denis Maloney.
Composer: Pray for Rain.

DOWNLOAD OPTIONS 

MP4 | 2.09 GB | 632×470 | 29.970 FPS | 3155 kb/s | AAC 161 kb/s
Language: English | Subtitles: Japanese (hard)

 DL via FILES

       DL via 1FICHIER
          (DO NOT USE WITHOUT ADBLOCKER)

This is a sort of “Director’s Cut” version of the film shown on Japanese TV, no idea about the date, late ’90s maybe? The quality isn’t very good but it features the original score by Dan Wool and Zander Schloss which was replaced by a much different and inferior score for the theatrical release and all copies released on home video. I believe this cut still has some edits done by the producers against Cox’s vision for the film so it’s not entirely his cut but still resembles more his original vision than all other copies available for this film out there, this version also has some extra and extended scenes compared to the theatrical cut. More details about the score change can be read on Dan Wool’s blog, here. Many thanks to Predator2 @ CG for sharing this. Enjoy!

How would you rate this movie?

Click on a star to rate it!

One Comment

  1. Jonathan Shapiro
    January 2, 2025
    Reply

    Thank you so much for this! I’ve always wanted to see this version of it.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *