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The anime film [**Odin: Photon Space Sailer
Starlight**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin%3a_Photon_Sailer_Starlight) was
released in Japan with a running time of 139 minutes, but Central Park Media's
U.S. release of the movie is only 93 minutes long. This results in a whopping
_45 minutes_ of footage edited out. I realize there was no real ending to the
movie since it was originally planned to be a trilogy, and that the film
itself is kind of slow to begin with. But what did the U.S. release edit out?
Was there a specific chunk(s) of the story that was removed? Or did they
somehow remove all of the panning, random action, and borderline long still
shots throughout the movie?


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What was removed between the Japanese and English releases of "Odin: Photon Space Sailer Starlight"?


From
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing_of_anime_in_American_distribution#Length):

> Many earlier anime theatrical films had slow deliberate pacing resulting in
> running times that were over two hours. Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight, whose
> original runtime was two hours 15 minutes had a pre-credits sequence,
> numerous surrealistic special effects scenes, lengthy dialogue scenes,
> silent moments, as well as a musical ending (special appearance by
> [Loudness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_%28band%29), the band who
> performed some of the music numbers), all of which were cut resulting in a
> 90 minute English dub.

So the answer appears to be "All of the above".

(I've not seen the movie yet.)


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