shikamaru - that was the director's cut you saw. there's a few other versions.
in the theatrical release:
Spoiler: it cuts out the scene where the fortune teller says he has no lifeline, it cuts out the dialogue where his mom reveals she had 2-3 stillbirths before him (letting us know later on that all his siblings resorted to the same method of escaping the horrid loop). in the end, instead of the video of his birth, it shows the first time they met at a party. he threatens her and scares her away, thus making her end up with her mom.
there's a couple of endings:
Spoiler:
one ending has him seeing her on the street outside on a busy sidewalk. from there, they both walk away in opposite directions. in another version, he turns around and walks after her. in a final version, he walks after her, and actually says hi, asks her out, and she accepts.
so all in all, including the director's cut and the theatrical, there's 4 different endings. personally i like the director's cut the most, you can tell why they would hollywoodize it for the general audiance though.
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