 Tsui Hark was extremely unhappy with this film and wanted to have it  completely recut. For example: Tsui felt that the focus of the movie  should be on the cop instead of the killer. Therefor, he wanted the  film to start with the scene that introduces the cop. The shootout  in the restaurant, during which the killer blinds Sally Yeh, was to  be completely cut and only inserted in flashbacks later in the  movie. Neither Woo nor editor David Wu were going to reedit the film  to Tsuis demands and due to a tight schedule (The Killer was going  to premiere in Taiwan in a short time and some 100 cinemas had  already booked the film), Hark didnt have the time to mess with the  film. The Killer was a huge success when it premiered in Taiwan,  which made Hark so furious that he (allegedly) threw things out of  his office window.