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      Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

      R Released Feb 3, 1989 1h 38m Crime Drama List
      0% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 35% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score A Los Angeles police detective (Charles Bronson) and his partner (Perry Lopez) hunt down a pimp (Juan Fernandez) who preys on teenagers. Read More Read Less

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Odd, well-made and thoroughly unpleasant. Rated: 1/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...the meandering storyline [is] ultimately exacerbated by an almost excessively deliberate pace. Rated: 2/4 Nov 18, 2009 Full Review Michael Ferraro Film Threat Rated: 2/5 May 23, 2006 Full Review Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily A rather sleazy and unmemorable later Bronson vehicle. Rated: 2/5 Oct 8, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 24, 2005 Full Review Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com Rated: 1/5 Jul 25, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Max W The film sets itself up with several interesting plot points with a potential payoff for each, but a few aren't resolved leaving it feel unfinished Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/09/22 Full Review Audience Member The final film between director J. Lee Thompson and Charles Bronson, Kinjite was the ninth movie they made together and was going to be shot back to back with The Golem, a movie I wish had been made. When reviewing the movie, the Los Angeles Times said, "If you think you might be offended by it, don't go. You will be." While in Japan, a businessman had watched a woman be assaulted on the subway without complaint. And when he comes to Los Angeles, that moment continues to obsess him to the point that he attempts to recreate it and he learns that American women refuse to suffer in silence. Running from the scene of his attempted crime, he's mugged and as others in the community learn of the crime and begins attacking men who resemble the businessman. The woman who was involved is Rita Crowe (Amy Hathaway), the daughter of LAPD vice-squad detective Lt. Crowe (Bronson). And when he learns that the man that tried to hurt his daughter has just lost his own daughter to a child prostitution ring. Now he must get past his hate for the man and prejudice against the Japanese to do his job. There's not really a happy ending here — the girl is saved but the experiences she's endured have ruined her to the point that she overdoses — and Bronson and his partner (Perry Lopez) go against their badges and attempt to murder the gang to stop them from ever doing what they did again. Beyond the last film they did together, this was Bronson's last Cannon movie — he would make Death Wish V with Golan — and Thompson's final movie. It's a dark movie in two careers where plenty of equally dark corners were explored ending with a man satisfied with finally finishing the job he set out to do. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member What a bizarre crime thriller. It's got shades of comedy with the way Bronson trolls that pimp, pushing him to madness. And what's with the pervy Japanese businessman...? It was a stand out Bronson flick for me, I had lots of fan with it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/11/20 Full Review Audience Member When you go looking for b-movies away from the well-known ones, you never really know what you're going to get. Finding a late-era Cannon movie starring Charles Bronson as a geriatric cop who gets enraged over child prostitution in a dollar bin can go really well and be campy weird fun, or just be odd and offputting. In the case of Kinjite: Forbidden Secrets it's kind of both. It doesn't take long for Kinjite to go from a sleazy strip scene to having Bronson torture a john by sodomizing him with the escort's dildo. Which leads to a quick to where he is washing his hands and telling his wife, that for some reason he is no longer hungry. Putting your hand up the rectum of a stranger to prove a point does that to you, Chuck. Then we cut to Japan where a group of businessmen are being taught English and how to behave with Westerners. Both of these stories feel like the main plot and they can get sleazy. Our main Japanese businessman watches a girl get sexually assaulted on a train, and wonders how to get in on the action. While Bronson chases down teenagers working for Duke the pimp. You know, it's actually kind of hard not to completely explain both plots from this movie to review it, the two stories weave in and out of the movie willy nilly and only meet when the man from Japan has his daughter kidnapped by the pimp. This also happens after he sexually assaults Bronson's daughter on a bus....wow. This as just me trying to pull the movie ideas altogether. Kinjite justs seems so unfocused on telling its story, and more interested in sleazing around with half-naked "teens" and sexual assault. Kind of leaves you with a dirty feeling after dealing with some scenes. Sure, in the end, there are some explosions and more b-movie fun, but by that time you've seen some pretty gratuitous sleaze that really adds very little to the film. Kinjite: Forbidden Secrets is too unfocused to really enjoy. It also has too high of a sleaze factor to really find anything all that fun. Unless you like feeling like you need a shower after watching what the writers thought was a hard-nosed crime drama. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member If not much else, this is certainly the most bizarre of Bronson's Cannon era outings. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/11/23 Full Review jasper s Kinjite was a typical Bronson vehicle. He plays a vice cop in seedy Los Angeles. Not a bad film overall - Especially for Bronson fans. A little dated and slow, very 80's. Keep your eye out for Danny Trejo in the jail at the end. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A Los Angeles police detective (Charles Bronson) and his partner (Perry Lopez) hunt down a pimp (Juan Fernandez) who preys on teenagers.
      Director
      J. Lee Thompson
      Producer
      Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan
      Screenwriter
      Harold Nebenzal
      Distributor
      The Cannon Group
      Production Co
      Golan-Globus
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 3, 1989, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 15, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 38m
      Sound Mix
      Surround