I don't think I've seen the director's cut.

…by one of her classmate rivals as a whore — who turns into the film’s most lethal female combatant. A flashback scene showing an infant Mitsuko being accosted by a perverted customer of her prostitute mother. Fending off an attempt to rape her, she pushes him down the stairs. All of this happens against the backdrop of her drugged and/or depressed mother who mutters “Be strong, Mitsuko, or you’ll end up like me.”
Battle Royale — Running the Gauntlet of a Lost Decade
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Simon Dillon
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I don't think I've seen the director's cut. Will have to revisit this one. Great article, by the way. :)
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