This is the BEST MOVIE EVER -- We need more Charles Bronsons in real life
Added 11/13/2009
I'm sure that the subject disturbs a lot of men whom, well, would rather see it legalized to have relations with kids. But as a victim of child molestation, this movie always gave me a wonderful feeling of peace... justice... the long overdue retribution criminals deserve.
I give it 100 times 100 stars. Society needs more positive messages like the one Charles Bronson sent out to the criminals.
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One of Bronson's best
Added 5/14/2009
I remember when Kinjite first came out. It received harsh reviews from the Beavis and Butthead of snob reviewers(no names needed..you know who they are). When I finally saw it I liked it. Of course it's not perfect but what movie under Golan and Globus is? Plus they trashed the movie because of the subject matter but the subject matter happens in real life.
Plot: LT Crowe(Charles Bronson) goes out of his way to bust a child prostitution ring. He ends up furious after his daughter is molested by an Asian man. He later has to help an Asian man find his own daughter after she was kidnapped. Here is a twist: the same man Crowe has to help molested Crowe's daughter.
The storyline is what keeps the movie interesting. The action scenes are kept to a minimum and Charles Bronson had some pretty funny lines. The main reason why I like Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is that you can tell that there was an effort to make it work. It wasn't your typical Charles Bronson fare and that made it appealing. My biggest gripe with the film is that the same guy that molested Crowe's daughter is never dealt with. That just doesn't sit too well with me but other than that it was a good movie.
Its easy to slam this movie based on a subject matter that repulses most people but that isnt being fair. Child prostitution is a reality so bashing a movie for showing a reality is pretty damn stupid. But what can you expect from the same critics that gave Speed 2: Booze Control two thumbs up? If you love the late Charles Bronson's movies than you cant go wrong with Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects. Its better than the weak link of the Death Wish series.
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Rising sun: The Archie Bunker Version
Added 1/18/2009
Offering a killer combo of terrible writing, terrible acting and terrible direction, it's a tossup whether Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is offensively bad or just hilariously bad. It's almost as if someone ran a competition to make the sleaziest, seediest Cannon film. As if a glance at a cast list including characters like 'Lesbian Pedophile,' 'Perverted Gentleman,' 'Porno Actress' weren't enough, it's your only chance to see Charles Bronson's cop throw a lowlife on a bed and grab a sex toy - but don't worry, it's okay, as the offscreen screams make clear he's only torturing him for information. After all, even if he is a bit overprotective of his nice Catholic daughter, he's a nice Catholic cop who regularly brings local Catholic priest William O'Connell a packed lunch and who believes in poetic justice - or at least ensuring that the bad guys end up in the slammer with the horniest inmates maximum security can provide to give them a taste of their own medicine. But then that's what you get for telling him "Look, I think you're a little bit unstable." Still, when later offered a bribe, he may snarl "I'd like to shove this up your a**, but I don't want to get my hands dirty," he's clearly learned where to draw the line: instead, he just makes him eat a $25,000 watch and sets fire to his Cadillac. The anal obsession even follows through to the film's title: despite the poster featuring a naked Japanese girl on a porn film set, the film's only direct example of Kinjite/forbidden subjects, as Alex Hyde White's English teacher explains to a group of Japanese businessmen, is, er talking about your bowel movements in polite society.
Bronson isn't just too old for this, as the opening fight makes only too clear, he's too old for love interest Peggy Lipton, and she looks old enough to have grown-up kids. A better actor than he ever got the credit for when given the right material, here's he's given less a properly thought out character than a series of outrageous reactionary quirks. When he's not widening the circles of suspects he's accidentally dropping them to their death off the sides of buildings. He's definitely not a P.C. copper, with a special loathing for the Japanese - as if it wasn't bad enough that they're buying up American businesses, what's worse, they double-park on a public thoroughfare! No racial minority goes unassaulted, be they black pimp or Pakistani hotel clerk, no cop cliché unrecycled, be it a boss who bangs his fist on the table or a dead meat partner (Perry Lopez and his spectacularly bad hair dye that's so prominent it deserves screen billing all its own). The twin plot strands - Bronson's L.A. cop trying to take down Juan Hernandez's pimp who deals in underage girls and James Pax's porn-obsessed Japanese businessman - take forever to intertwine, and then in the most unlikely of ways: after copping a feel of Bronson's daughter on a bus ("Some Oriental guy touched my holy of holies!"), in the film's idea of poetic justice Pax finds his own daughter kidnapped by Hernandez. You half expect the writer to pop his head round the corner of the screen and say, "How d'ya like them apples?"
Somewhere underneath all the laziness is the germ of a good idea even if it is too muddily developed to ever be clear quite what that idea really is, but the execution is pure Rising Sun: the Archie Bunker Version, shot like out-takes from an R-rated 80s music video with an outrageous and rather lazy dockside shoot-'em-up-and-blow'em-up finale that sees a small army of machine-gunning sidekicks suddenly appear to up the gratuitous body count. The last of Bronson's mostly bad to indifferent collaborations with J. Lee Thompson - and sadly Thompson's last film as director - it's a poor signoff for two undervalued players who increasingly never seemed to be that discerning about what pictures they said yes to.
An indifferent transfer with only a brief trailer as an extra.
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Funniest 80s Bronson flick ever, and one of his best Cannon entries
Added 6/17/2008
There's a trend with Charles Bronson's 80s Cannon flicks: the more that came out, the funnier each one got. The first one, 1982's 'Death Wish II' was a morbid and dark flick that had basically zero humor throughout its sleaze-soaked run time. As sequels 'Death Wish 3' and 'Death Wish 4: The Crackdown' came out, the unintentional humor was hitting all-time highs. For me though, it's 'Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects' that remains the funniest Bronson vehicle of the 80s. Oh, and it's a great action flick in its own right too.
The hilarity comes from a myriad of things: hilarious thugs that Bronson fights, risible dialogue (after walking in on a man about to violate a teen prostitute with a dildo, the man yells "YOU CAN'T COME IN LIKE THAT AND DISTURB SOMEONE'S PRIVACY YOU S.O.B.!" - both the dialogue and the manner of its delivery is hilarious), and many other things such as an editing mistake in a drive-by shooting scene where the same black man is shot and killed THREE TIMES IN A ROW. Bronson throws people through (cardboard) dressers, forces pimps to swallow their watches (then sets their car on fire while they're choking), violates johns with their own sex toys (then wonder if it'll cause him to "lose his pension"), and in one scene, upon busting a hotel porn shoot, fights a guy who does a battle roar and makes the funniest battle face ever before getting owned by Bronson (a screenshot of this is my Amazon profile pic, check it out).
As you can see, the main value in this piece is its ridiculousness, the kind of unintentional awesomeness that is so common in 80s action vehicles. BUT the film stands its own as an action vehicle as well, although the body count is tiny and it's slower at time it's still a take-no-prisoners Bronson flick all the way.
In short, fans of Charles Bronson and 80s action need to check this one out. Though most Bronson fans claim 'Death Wish 3' to be his most unintentionally funny 80s Cannon flick, my pick for that honor is 'Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects." Good stuff.
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Standard 80's Action flick--No plot, lots of Violence
Added 5/11/2008
If you want a good laugh or two, then this is the movie for you. The acting is chessy, the violence is plentiful and best of all the plot is nonexistent, so you can sit back relax have a few beers and relive the glory of the 80's.
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