Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Woodyanders Brutal renegade Los Angeles cop Lt. Crowe (the one and only Charles Bronson in typically sturdy stoic'n'steely form) goes after evil pimp Duke (a marvelously odious portrayal by Juan Fernandez), who runs a nefarious prostitution ring that kidnaps teenage girls and forces them to become hookers. Moreover, Crowe must also contend with the fact that repressed Japanese businessman Hiroshi Hada (the extremely obnoxious James Pax) groped his sweet daughter Kathleen (an appealing turn by Peggy Lipton) on a bus. Director J. Lee Thompson, working from a blithely lurid script by Harold Nebenzal, relates the compellingly sordid story at a steady pace, cranks up the seaminess to the unflinchingly nasty ninth degree, ably crafts a strong atmosphere of unnerving depravity, and stages the exciting action with real skill and brio. The sound acting from the capable cast keeps the movie on track: Perry Lopez as Crowe's easygoing partner Eddie Rios, Sy Richardson as Duke's vile cohort Lavonne, Bill McKinney as the helpful Father Burke, Nicole Eggert as hardened underage hooker Dee Dee, and Amy Hathaway as Crowe's long-suffering wife Rita. Best of all, Bronson is totally off the chain crazy vicious: Chuckie sodomizes one guy with a dildo, makes Duke eat his own Rolex watch at gunpoint (!), explodes in a wild racist rant at a group of understandably puzzled Japanese folks, and arranges at the spot-on poetic justice conclusion to have Duke placed in a prison cell block with a gaggle of savage sexual predators (one of whom is none other than Danny Trejo!). Gideon Porah's glossy cinematography gives the picture an appropriately garish look. The funky pumping score by Greg De Belles hits the fiercely throbbing spot. While not that graphic, this flick's resolutely sleazy subject matter nonetheless still delivers a really harsh kick to the gut (for example, a naïve abducted adolescent Asian schoolgirl is gang raped by Duke and his despicable flunkies). A choice scuzzy chunk of prime 80's junk.

ebiros2 Kinjite is actually a Japanese martial arts terminology meaning "Forbidden Technique". Something that's so ruthlessly potent that it is forbidden from usage.Well, we have Golan-Globus production action movie featuring Charles Bronson. If you haven't seen Charles Bronson's earlier movies, and seen this, you'd think he's another B movie actor. I have nothing against Golan-Globus films. They put out some good action movies during the '80s starring other luminaries such as Chuck Norris and Sho Kosugi. But this movie is bit below Charles Bronson's acting capability. The movie itself is not bad. It's about par for other Canon film's production of the time, and is quite entertaining to watch.So I'm ambivalent about this movie. If you came to see a Canon film movie, you came to the right place, but if you came to see a Charles Bronson film, you might be disappointed.Cinematography is very good as is in most of Golan-Globus produced films. Each scene is crisp and clean with beautiful colors.Bottom line is, this is above average action movie of the genre, and worth watching if you like '80s style action movies.

Coventry Having seen their collaborations "10 to Midnight", "The Evil that Men Do", "Murphy's Law", "Death Wish IV", "Messenger of Death" and now "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects", I can't help thinking that Charles Bronson and his buddy director J. Lee Thompson didn't give a damn about moral values anymore during the 1980's. Both gentlemen were in the very final phase of their long and respectable careers, and they still wanted to make some action movies together, but it feels like they remained stuck in the gritty and exploitative 1970's. All their 80's films are excessively violent, uncompromising in themes, politically & morally incorrect and often downright racist and offensive. "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects" is all of the above, and even worse. Actually, it would have been better for both Bronson and Thompson that this film had never been made. It's a vile film, stuffed with sickening undertones and harsh xenophobic dialogs. Charles Bronson also didn't appear to be the least bit interested in playing yet another tough copper character and noticeably has trouble memorizing his lines. I mean, he was never the greatest actor in the world, but if you compare his performance here with films like, say, "Mr. Majestyk" and "The Mechanic", it's more than obvious that he was tired of his typecasting. And still the racism and Charlie's uninterested performance aren't the worst things about "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects". This film has a completely incoherent, implausible and downright dumb screenplay! Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Crowe and his partner Eddie, although both clearly past their lawful pension age, are on the trail of super-gangster Duke, who's running a perverted network of underage prostitutes that he picks up from the streets or even kidnaps from their schools. Parallel with the plot, the film also introduces the sleazy Tokyo businessman Hiroshi Hada. Although married and father of two daughters, he fantasizes about fondling school girls on the metro and American prostitutes. When he travels to LA, you automatically expect that he will team up with Duke or at least become his most loyal customer, but no. Duke kidnaps the Japanese guy's oldest daughter and enrolls her into prostitution. Just before that he touched the private parts of Crowe's teenage daughter on the bus, but all of a sudden that doesn't matter anymore. The script is a ridiculous mess, no wonder Charles Bronson looks so confused. If you like "wrong" 80's action movies, the film is nevertheless worth checking out, even if only to see a handful of preposterously absurd and unintentionally hilarious sequences. For example, Crowe and his partner want to frighten one of Duke's accomplices by holding his upside down from a hotel balcony but then accidentally drop him for real! The look on their faces is priceless. The most jaw-dropping scene, however, takes place inside Duke's fancy Cadillac. He intends to bribe Crowe by offering his $20.000 gold Rolex watch. What does Charlie do? He makes him EAT the watch! And, as you can imagine, it's not a charming sight.

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.)