A brutal Los Angeles police Lt. (Charles Bronson) is determined to bust up an organization that forces underage girls into prostitution.The movie marks the ninth and final collaboration between Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson. Beginning with the movie "St. Ives" in 1976, their partnership spanned nearly thirteen years. I am sad to say they did not end on a high note.Although there are good parts of the film, it lacks an overall punch. The opening scene, busting in on a prostitute and her john, that grabs your attention. But then it becomes a film that tends to stereotypically anti-Japanese. I'm sad to see Bronson's character suddenly dislike all Japanese because of an incident with his daughter.

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.

In their ninth and final film collaboration, star Charles Bronson and director J. Lee-Thompson tackle the serious theme of child prostitution and invest it with all the depth of a shoot 'em up arcade game. This extremely dislikeable little thriller is badly written, lazily acted and carelessly directed. It is typical of the vulgar garbage churned out by the Golan-Globus production duo throughout the '80s – these Israeli cousins produced 90 or so titles, but only about 10% of their output is worth the time of day. Kinjite: Forbidden Subject belongs in the other 90% - nasty, exploitative, brainless rubbish that any half-respectable viewer will do their damndest to avoid! Japanese businessman Hiroshi Hada (James Pax) is transferred to Los Angeles with his family. Meanwhile, L.A. vice cop Lt. Crowe (Charles Bronson) is busy trying to bust a child prostitution ring in the city headed by sleazy low-life Duke (Juan Fernandez). Crowe is a fairly angry and unstable cop – he's wildly over-protective of his teenaged daughter, and increasingly disgusted by the slimeballs he's assigned to arrest. Furthermore, he hates the way that L.A. is becoming a multi-cultural city with its heavy influx of Japanese immigrants. When Hada's teenaged daughter is kidnapped by Duke's gang and forced into a life of sexual abuse and degradation, it is Crowe who is assigned to get her back. He must put aside his prejudices against all things Japanese to bring the bad guys to heel. But throughout his quest for the girl, Crowe finds himself questioning how far is enough when you're out to bring sex traffickers and paedophiles to justice? Such serious matters really deserve a better treatment than they receive in this trashy potboiler. Child prostitution, sex trafficking and cultural differences… all weighty themes, for sure. Certainly not the sort of thing that should be exploited for the sake of a bit of trigger-happy entertainment. Bronson looks utterly bored by his role and the action sequences are depressingly dispirited. Bronson and Thompson never were renowned for their subtlety, but Kinjite is pretty tasteless even by their extraordinarily low moral standards. There are a couple of positives in the film, though they hardly make the overall thing worth watching. One is Fernandez's astonishingly slimy turn as the villain (not great acting, but if there was an award for the most thoroughly rotten character to grace the screen he'd be a hot contender!) And then there are the film's occasional "did-I-just-see-what-I-thought-I-saw?" scenes – such as Bronson anally assaulting an offender with a dildo, or forcing a bad guy to swallow his Rolex watch… Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is thoroughly obnoxious and offensive stuff, and a sad end to the long directing career of J. Lee-Thompson (how could the man who gave us The Guns Of Navarone and Ice Cold In Alex have also made this?!?)

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.