Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

1989 "Desire. Temptation. Revenge."
5.5| 1h37m| R| en
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A brutal Los Angeles police lieutenant is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.

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SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
videorama-759-859391 You can't help loving this B film, that delves into fetishes, child perversion, abduction, and forbidden vices. I must say the scene with Bronson confessing to his priest/psychologist, played by the wonderful Bill Mckinney, I couldn't stop from grinning a tad. I know why. It's stereotypical Bronsoniitis, via J Lee Thompson, as we've seen many of Charlie's other Golan Globus flicks. It too had me wondering, does Charlie really enjoy this, or how is he on this, with how his career's plummeted. Another scene, that brought stereotypical vibes back, had him going off, publicly at Asians, making a stand, claiming, "They think they own the joint, goddamn cars, whatever". To race haters out there who see this, later on in the movie they could have a change of heart as does Charlie. Lately Charlie, has had a hard on for busting this sleazy pimp, Duke, (Fernandez) who runs a stable of young girls for perverted clientele. His latest beauty is an Asian schoolgirl who can't be more than thirteen, who he discreetly abducted from a private school, and groomed quick, courtesy of hishelp. Kinjite has some cheeky, saucy scenes, others, repulsive ones, like when the girl goes with an old guy in a limo, or later when she's taken to an apartment to fuel the hunger for a lonely female paedophile. We're off to a great start with Charlie and the boys, raiding a hotel room, busting up a trick, who has a big briefcase of kinky stuff, about to go to work on sexy Eggert's rear end. As having been with Duke, she even warns him later on that's his apartment is about to be raided. Now the forced Rolex swallowing watch scene, I must say, left me with a bit of a sore throat, this was a great stand out, "Are you kidding me" scene. Obviously Charlie wasn't. Although the end of Kinjite isn't all roses, as to some of the characters fates, what we have here is some really sleazy addictive B grade product. The sexy mistress in blue, with the Asian businessman, the father of the Asian daughter who's taken, I must say had nice hooters. This Asian guy presented a little shock revelation and unease to how he carried himself. But of course it's Charlie who carries the movie, where I wouldn't say this is the best departure out of Golan Globus ville, but it is addictively entertaining and I said before, stereotypically Charlie.
TheAnimalMother With more holes than a sunken U-boat, and more cheese than a medium pizza, Kinjite still manages to entertain those who are fond of Bronson, or those who are fans of the more gritty action films of the era. The film has strong moments, but it also suffers at times from overly lazy dialogue, direction and overall storytelling, and it's hard to forget the painfully bad 80's music in this film. The fight scenes are also far from great, however there is enough grit, sleaze and action to make the film a worthy watch for many. The film is undoubtedly a fairly confused morality tale, or perhaps a morality tale within a confused society is the better way of describing it. In the end, the film does rely on a sort of karmic justice to satisfy it's audience, and to a decent degree, it works, at times however it just leaves us asking some very strange questions. Of other note, there is an early but very small appearance by Danny Trejo in the film, as well as a decent performance from a very young Nicole Eggert, as well as a strong performance by the little known but hard to take your eyes off of Amy Hathaway. Worth a look for some, but not to be touched with a ten foot pole by others. My rating... 5.5/10
Witchfinder General 666 I am both an enthusiast of controversial, violent and sleazy Exploitation cinema, and an avid fan of the great late Charles Bronson. I strongly oppose political correctness in films, and I have no problem with a movie glorifying violence and vigilantism. However, this last collaboration of Charles Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson is so far out there it is sometimes difficult to enjoy. While the other Thompson/Bronson collaborations (10 TO MIDNIGHT, THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, DEATH WISH 4, MURPHY'S LAW...) were the opposite of politically correct (which is something I enjoy), KINJITE - FORBIDDEN SUBJECTS of 1989 is so full of glorification of police sadism and blatant racism that it is hard not to wonder whether Thompson's main intent was to overtrump his previous movies in wrongness.***SPOILERS*** Bronson is more willing than ever to bend the law in the role of tough-cop Lt. Crowe. Within the first five minutes of the film, he verbally abuses an Indian man in a racist rant, and assaults a man suspected of sex with underage prostitutes with a dildo (!). His main concern is bringing the evil pimp Duke (Juan Fernández) to justice. After his teenage daughter is groped by a drunk Japanese businessman, he furthermore keeps ranting about orientals. The highlights in the dubious protagonist's behavior are moments when he forces a suspect to devour a Rolex Watch (!) or sets a guy up to be raped in prison (!!).I cannot claim that the film isn't entertaining. It is. But on a very low and nearly despicable level. The so-called moral message of the film may well be described as fascist. I never have a problem with cinematic cops bending the law, or people taking the law in their own hands in films; however the manner of how the whole thing is glorified here is rather disgusting at times. Even worse, the film is blatantly racist. All the male Japanese characters are perverted drunks whose hobbies include groping and degrading girls. The one reasonable Japanese character is a woman who was 'raised in a Western manner'. All the villains are Latinos and blacks whereas the good guys are white cops. Bronson's characters' over-protectiveness of his daughter sometimes seems to go beyond the usual father-daughter protectiveness. Bronson generally doesn't seem too enthusiastic about this film. The 67-year-old actually seems annoyed by yet another type-casting. By the time this film was made, medication had rid Bronson of his rough facial features, which, in combination with his obvious lack of enthusiasm, makes him seem like an angry old guy who hates everybody, rather than the tough guy he used to be in earlier films. Still, watching Bronson in action is the main aspect that makes this film worth watching. The best performance comes from villain Juan Fernández, who is truly despicable and evil in his role.The combination of Bronson as star and Thompson in the director's chair never was an avatar of subtlety. And one would not want it to be. In watching a Bronson/Thompson film one will expect testosterone-driven, brutal and sadistic, politically incorrect entertainment, which is perfectly fine. This film's racism and fascistic message are hard to digest, however. As said, it may entertain, but it does so in a very low manner.
Bolesroor Hey, here's a few questions for everyone who's seen "Kinjite Colon Forbidden Subjects"!Is it really possible to stick your hand up the skirt of a random woman on a crowded subway train, fondle her to orgasm and not get caught because she's too shy to say anything...? And have no one else on the train notice?If you're an American girl who has the same thing happen to her on a bus and you freak out, call the police, file a report and tell your cop dad Charles Bronson, why would you NOT say anything when the very man who molested you shows up in your living room?!?Would a black man really die after being dropped over a third-story balcony into a swimming pool? Even if he did, would his corpse- upon floating to the surface- somehow be that of a WHITE MAN who looks nothing like him? Were the filmmakers really unable to find a black stunt professional?Did the producers really give Bronson's police partner the old "I'm playing it safe so I can retire with a pension" storyline only to kill him violently in what was surely the most clichéd plot device in the history of motion pictures?!?Was Peggy Lipton playing a mute in this movie or simply mentally retarded? Does anyone know any reason WHY her character was included in the film?Why in God's name would Bronson- whose arch-enemy in the film is a notorious street pimp who deals only in underage girls- not go directly to see him after he is assigned the case of finding a missing underage girl?Did anybody else notice 16 year-old Amy Hathaway's puffy nipples popping through her flimsy red bathing suit while she seductively posed for pictures after her swim meet? Is this movie about the horrors of sexualizing children or some kind of recruitment film?Are we really supposed to believe that someone even as tough as Charlie B. could make another human being swallow a Rolex watch? Did anybody else see said watch slip clumsily into Bronson's over-sized blazer sleeve in the laziest sleight-of-hand botch ever recorded to film?If you were a little girl rescued from sex slavery would you tell the police afterward everything you know about the criminals in order to ensure their capture? Or would you encode your knowledge in a haiku and off yourself with a heroin overdose? If so, where would you get said heroin? Did the cops let her keep it as a souvenir of her joyful time as a sex slave?Does this movie really open with Charles Bronson sodomizing a pedophile with a twelve-inch electric dildo?Am I the only person who noticed that the priest was subtly suggesting that Bronson was over-reacting to his daughter's bus fondling because Bronson was actually in love/lust with his own daughter?!? And am I the only person that noticed Bronson AGREED with this theory?!? And that this storyline is never referenced again?!?Well, my friends, the answer to all these questions (and more) can be found in the mind-bogglingly bizarre movie "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects." But beware... this movie may leave you with one or more scars and a lifetime of lingering perversions... and now if you'll excuse me I have to catch a Japanese subway for the high school swim meet.GRADE: C(And a note to my fellow IMDb reviewers: You do understand that this was a movie, right? Fiction? Entertainment? Save the moralizing and self-righteous indignation for events that Actually Happen. You know... in Real Life. And is it just me or does it seem like the same people who are most disgusted by child molestation and statutory rape the same ones who let their young daughters out of the house dressed like whores? And the same ones who have the secret stash of kiddie porn on their computer? Lighten up, people. It's a movie. The popcorn's on me.)