Two Versions of Dance Subaru

So I watched two different versions of Dance Subaru (昴　スバル), which I suspect one is the Hong Kong version and the other is the Japanese or standard version. The version on YouTube is the long version running 117 minutes -- I believe this one is the HK version since the director is from Hong Kong -- while the standard version is 105 minutes. There are some things on the long version that I like and some things on the short version that I like. I wish they would have just made it so it would have bits and pieces of things from both versions.

The long version doesn't necessarily mean it's long because of the additional footage -- which it does have -- but it has scenes, which are rearranged, and some are exactly the way I think it should be. The short version will do some scenes the way I think it should be done, but were rearranged on the long version, or the short version will have some scenes rearranged, but would go the way I think it should be done in the long version. It's almost puzzling as to how the film really should have been arranged =_=; If we actually think about all the footage cut out in the standard version, it would actually be a lot more than 10 minutes, it feels like 30 minutes of footage from the long version is gone, but the reason why the long version is only 117 minutes is because there is some footage in the short version that wasn't included in the long version, so the long version actually should be longer by another 10-15 minutes. If we combine both film versions and weed out the duplicate scenes/sequences then the whole movie really should be roughly 130-140 minutes long. Why the hell did they have to make it so different anyway?

The short version contains the main points, while the long version layers on the details so some things make more sense. I like the music set-up in the hip-hop scene in the short version compared to the long version though. The usage of BoA's "Eat You Up" in the short version was much better than what they did for the long version, but as for the final dance at the end of the film, I liked the long version better than the short version. The music used in the long version for her final dance was a lot more powerful and fitting for a finale, but the music used in the shorter version was really too subtle for my liking. I wish they would just mix the two up =_= *sigh* It's kind of sad that it's so different, makes you almost have to buy both movies in order to see everything. Oh, the Bolero is the only thing I'm a bit iffy on. I think the way it was set up in the long version is better, though there was a little spot where I thought the standard was better, so that is one where I'm kind of like "... No idea which is better." I'm pretty sure I know that I love the street dance in the standard version better than the long version and the finale in the long version as opposed to the short version. Also, the competition is also better watched in the long version 'cause the music is better in that one. They took part of the Canadian dancer's scenes and put it in twice in the short version so that kind of bothered me. Oh, the whole black cat thing will make more sense if you watch the longer version too.

Anyway, that's just a warning for anyone going to watch the movie. If you watch the long version, you miss out some scenes that are only in the short version, and if you watch the short version, you miss out 20-30 something minutes of extra footage that never makes it into the standard version. *sigh* Why in the world do they do this sort of thing to movies =_=?

Edit: So I looked at the credits and the song used in the Japanese version for the final dance is the correct one since it's supposed to be Piano Quintet: Polo Zero. The song used in the long version, which is the one I like, is "Oblivion," which is just a song that's part of the soundtrack. There are two soundtracks and the one I want is the ballet version, but can't buy it right now 'cause I have no money lol ^_^;;;