It appears that Mei Ah Entertainment, the Hong Kong distributors of John Woo's Han Dynasty epic RED CLIFF, have pulled the DVD and Blu-ray of RED CLIFF 2 from shelves just 3 months after being released.
While I have not had this confirmed officially from Mei Ah themselves I have noticed over the past few weeks that many of the stores I frequent in various parts of Hong Kong and Kowloon were "out of stock" of the title, while they still had plentiful copies of part one. Yesterday I asked a friend who works at a major international retail outlet in Hong Kong who confirmed that Mei Ah had deleted the title.
Obviously this move is to improve the box office takings of the truncated International release, which condenses the 150-minute first part and the 142-minute second part into a single 148-minute release, effectively losing an entire film in the process. It does appear that some online retailers are still carrying stock of RED CLIFF 2, so this is merely a heads-up to advise people that if they have been meaning to check out Woo's sprawling epic in its entirety, they had better not dawdle!