Posted AT 5:59 AM EST on 15/06/07
China censors latest Pirates of the Caribbean
BEIJING — Censors have cut scenes of Chow Yun-Fat as a bald, scared pirate in the new
Pirates of the Caribbean movie, saying they insult China's people, the main state news agency said Friday.
Xinhua said Chow's time on the screen in
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End had “been slashed in half by censors in China for vilifying and defacing the Chinese.
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