Kinjite - Forbidden Subjects [DVD]

The movie is pretty good, I actually like the old school action scenes. Some parts are actually a little funny, if you don't take yourself too seriously. I've seen some reviews where people complained about this movie being "racist", and that's not fair. This movie is a product of the time, EVERYONE said or did the same things, that's why certain things are in this movie. I like to think of them as move of a historical recording than something racist... if that makes sense? Either way, I like it.

Loved the ending.

As I write my review of this movie from the era of the 1980's.. What comes to mind is .. the sex trade was a booming business for "Street walkers/pimps" due to the fact that technology such as today wasn't available. That under belly world soared due to networking and corruption that ran rampant in society . Cities such as Los Angeles,New York,Las Vegas,Chicago,Detroit and dozens of cities had this problem. This is one of the reasons why Serial Killer's such as "The Green River Killer,The Grim Sleeper Killer" and other psycho's murdered hundred's of women because the police didn't care , until it became headlines. Personally teenage girls and boys shouldn't be exposed to this type of life. If a female or male of 25 or even older wants to engage in this activity for income? Then that is the choice that they make .. even Drug dealer's sell narcotic's and their isn't much a care in public reaction's. Because people assume a 22 year old male selling drugs is a very dangerous profession and he knows the risks? Such as being robbed, killed by a rival or arrested by the local police.? I saw this movie on cable television back in the 1990's on cable and I am certain that certain scenes were edited out? In the 1970's actor Charles Bronson was starring in Vigilante movies and around the 1980's he turned towards portraying a Cop...By this time he was in his 60's .. Most of the actors in this movie I have seen their faces in many B-list movies of the era. Peggy Lipton former wife of Quincy Jones and actress from the "Mod Squad" plays his wife... Sadly she died in May 2019 from Cancer. Her daughter is movie star "Rashida Jones,".. Actor Juan Fernandez plays "Duke" the pimp.. Nicole Eggert plays the reformed teenage prostitute ..The movie does have it's shocking moments .. such as the scenes with the girl's on the city bus..,., One of them being touched by the Japanese man.. who's daughter is kidnapped later . The other is when the woman who's a female pedophile .. talks to the little Japanese girl in her living room. The only scene that was truly a "Feel good" moment is when the pimp is thrown in the cell with "Big Bubba" and get's his better's !!! Any parent raising a teenage girl in 2021 .. Please let your kids see this movie. The reason I say this .. is because teenage girls .. have accounts on social media websites. Sadly they may encounter this type of sleaze online, in person when they leave home for college. The world is a scary place and .. NOT everyone is your friend..!! Don't take candy from stranger's ... folks !

Bronson showed he still had it.

I normally like Charles Bronson as an actor. I like his strong, silent on-screen persona. Unfortunately, in the early 1980s he started working for Cannon Films, purveyors of low-budget action schlock, and became an icon of conservative white male rage. He made a series of Death Wish sequels for Cannon (all of them vastly inferior to the original), along with this piece of rubbish.Bronson plays a vice cop pursuing a sex trafficker named Duke. Duke and his henchmen are Latino and black, respectively, because in Cannon movies all Latinos and blacks are criminals. Bronson's character is clearly deranged, and has an unhealthy obsession with his teenage daughter's sexuality, but because he's a conservative white man and the movie is aimed at conservative white men, everything he does is given a free pass (the filmmakers give his daughter a black girlfriend in an obvious attempt to convince us they don't think all blacks are bad). He takes Duke prisoner at gunpoint (kidnapping), forces him to eat his watch (assault), and then sets Duke's car on fire (arson). Of course, his captain does nothing when Bronson confesses this to him, because the filmmakers know Americans hate consequences, even though Bronson has committed three felonies, any one of which would have gotten him kicked off the force and landed him in jail in real life. Also, several innocent people were killed when Duke retaliated by opening up with an automatic weapon on a restaurant Bronson was in (Duke also inexplicably gets away with this, because apparently every cop in LA except Bronson is completely ineffectual). Nope, his captain just lets him go merrily on his way without so much as a reprimand. At this point, reality has officially left the building.Later on, Bronson and his partner bust into Duke's apartment without a warrant. If this is how they conduct their investigation, it's no wonder Duke ends up back on the street each time they arrest him, as Bronson claims. Also, they don't call for backup, because that would just get in the way when they interrogate the black henchman by holding him from a balcony by his ankles, then accidently drop him so he falls to his death. Oops! Again, no consequences for this.With Bronson's only lead now silenced due to his incompetence, Duke has apparently gotten away scot free, but the writers come to Bronson's rescue by having Fumiko (the Japanese girl he was trying to rescue) give him a poem, from which he manages to deduce the location of Duke's hideout (even though she's never been there). Oh yes, there's a Japanese girl in this movie, who got in Duke's car and went home with him. The movie is trying to show that women in Japan are treated disgracefully and encouraged to submit to everything men do to them without question (perhaps the only realistic aspect of the entire movie), but Fumiko's completely docile obedience to a total stranger goes beyond believability. There's being trusting and obedient, and then there's just being stupid.Anyway, the last fifteen minutes is absolute nonsense, as Bronson and his partner track Duke to his hideout (again, no warrant, no backup), which gets his partner killed, and Bronson then single-handedly kills Duke's entire gang and apprehends him, so Duke ends up getting raped in prison, and justice is served, sort of (I'd imagine Bronson's partner and all those innocent bystanders in the restaurant might have different opinions). Yeah, this is a ridiculous, racist movie, and not worth anyone's time.

An older Charles Bronson stars in "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects" which is supposed to be about Charles Bronson cracking down on weird sexual crimes coming to America from SE Asia in the 1980's. The whole proposition didn't really fly and almost nobody has seen this forbidden film. It's not Bronson's best or worst.Forbidden Subjects is however a strange watch with the main bad guy being the baddie from "Crocodile Dundee 2," Juan Fernandez. Fernandez is mostly a drug dealer and pimp. Bronson aims to put him out of business any way he can. Such is the aim of the film and, in that way, Forbidden Subjects has the look of one of Bronson's vigilante films of the 1970's.This one is not worth buying but it might be a curiosity watch as it is now available on Amazon Prime.

Get it straight folks: Mr. all-time action-hero is not waiting around for the syndicate to say it is ok.BAD ASS. A very righteous script. This should not be a surprise to any Bronson fan. Thanks for watching.And yes, it opens with a BANG!!. Some nice car chases; nice scenery.

I like 16:9. I like action and violence. I like the shooting. I like the punching and kicking. I would like to watch movies like this. The kidnapping is optional.

très bon moment a regardé ce film

If you like Charles Bronson I think you will enjoy this movie.

Die „Cannon Group“ der beiden israelischen Cousins YORAM GLOBUS und MENAHEM GOLAN war in den 80ern für ihre Actionfilme bekannt. Das waren ausnahmslos Low-Budget-Produktionen in denen die beiden Cousins vor allem auf berühmte Action-Darsteller wie CHUCK NORRIS, MICHAEL DUDIKOFF, JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME und eben auch CHARLES BRONSON setzten. Vor allem CHARLES BRONSON, dessen Popularität in den 80ern nachgelassen hatte, konnte sich Dank dieser B-Movies über Wasser halten und sich einen gewissen Kultstatus erarbeiten.Die „Cannon Group“ produzierte diese B-Movies wie am Fließband, alleine mit CHARLES BRONSON 8 (!) Filme in den 80ern. Der letzte davon war „Kinjite – Tödliches Tabu“ aus dem Jahr 1989, bei dem LEE J. THOMPSON Regie führte, der zuvor schon in etlichen Filmen mit CHARLES BRONSON gearbeitet hatte. BRONSON und THOMPSON waren ein eingespieltes Team, auch die Rollen die BRONSON spielte ähnelten sich fast immer.In „Kinjite – Tödliches Tabu“ spielt er wieder einen knallharten Cop, der es mit ein paar Schurken aufnimmt und es dabei mit Gesetzen und Vorschriften nicht ganz so eng nimmt.„LIEUTENANT CROWE“ ist beim Sittendezernat in Los Angeles und sieht jeden Tag eine Menge Schmutz und Elend. Er ist selbst Vater einer 15-jährigen Tochter und als die in der U-Bahn von einem asiatischen Mann betatscht wird, entwickelt er eine Aversion gegen Asiaten. Der Mann heißt „HIROSHI HADA“ ist selbst Vater einer Tochter und als die vom skrupellosen Zuhälter „DUKE“ entführt und zur Prostitution gezwungen wird, muss ausgerechnet „CROWE“ in diesem Fall ermitteln. Was er aber nicht weiß, ist, dass es „HADA“ war, der seine Tochter belästigt hat ……„Kinjite – Tödliches Tabu“ ist ein typsicher BRONSON, das ist astreines Actionkino, in dem es der Titelheld wieder einmal nicht so mit Recht und Gesetz hat. Ich mag diese Filme, ganz ehrlich, ich sehe die super gerne, auch wenn die Botschaften manchmal etwas zweifelhaft sind. BRONSON spielt meist den Rächer, der Selbstjustiz betreibt und somit ein Image bedient, das ihm seit den „Death-Wish-Filmen“ anhängig war.Das zerknitterte, wettergegerbte Gesicht kam ihm da natürlich sehr entgegen, das machte seine Rollen immer extrem glaubwürdig. „Kinjite“ unterscheidet sich vom Inhalt kaum von den anderen, wenn man aus dem Polizisten „CROWE“ den Architekten „PAUL KERSEY“ gemacht hätte, hätte das auch „Death Wish 8“ sein können.Die schauspielerischen Leistungen sind sehr übersichtlich, BRONSON spielt seine Figur eigentlich so, wie er alle spielt, etwas wortkarg, ein rauer und robuster Typ, der knallhart und ohne Rücksicht die bösen Jungs aus dem Weg räumt. Die restlichen Darsteller sind eigentlich nicht erwähnenswert, diese Filme wurden auf BRONSON zugeschnitten, der auch eindeutig herausragt und alle anderen in seinen Schatten stellt. In den 90er wurde es dann ruhig um ihn, 1994 kam noch „Death Wish V“, das wars dann auch fast schon.Zur Blu-ray kann man sagen, dass die wirklich gut geworden ist, sowohl Ton, als auch Bild sind in einwandfreier Qualität, da war ich dann doch sehr angenehm überrascht.Mein Fazit: Wer auf diese einschlägig bekannten 80er-Jahre-Actionfilme steht, dieses B-Movie-Flair mag, der ist hier genau richtig. Auch für BRONSON-Fans ist das ein keines Leckerli, weil ihr Held hier noch einmal die Rolle spielt, die man von ihm liebt. Guter Film, kann ich immer wieder sehen.

If you like his movies from the 70s/80s you’ll like this. Classic Bronson on show.

Last of the ten Bronson-Thompson collaborations. Typical Cannon-Bronson vehicle with some unexpected sleaziness. Picture is a bit on the soft side and audio is ok but who expects more from these eighties Cannon films. I think this is as good as other MGM/Cannon releases. I'm very happy with the English subtitles and overall this blu-ray is recommended to all Bronson fans.