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** ''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' had scenes with "U.N. News Reporters" talking about whatever had previously occurred.

** ''[[The Return of Godzilla]]'', in keeping with its status as a direct sequel to the original film, had Raymond Burr reprise his role as Steve Martin, as well as product placement-laden scenes where American military personnel crack wise about Godzilla.

* ''[[Varan the Unbelievable]]'' was subjected to a particularly extreme case of this. Its American version was completely rewritten around newly shot American footage with Myron Healey. ''Varan'' is an excellent example of a film that ended up ''shorter'' despite its [[Importation Expansion]]; the original Japanese version runs 87 minutes, while the American version, despite adding 40 minutes of newly shot footage, runs only 70 minutes.

* Toho's [[Big Foot]] movie ''Jû jin yuki otoko'' was brought to the US as ''Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman'', with over 40 minutes cut and and scenes added of John Carradine and other American actors spouting [[Techno Babble]] and (in a rather [[Squick|squicky]] scene) dissecting one of the monsters.