Review of Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989) by Jason D — 16 Nov 2009

Kinjite - Forbidden Secrets is almost two movies wrapped in one. On one side, you have hard-nosed, no-nonsense taking cop played by Charles Bronson, whose one goal in life is to take down a villainous thug who runs a big-time child prostitution ring in LA.

On the other side, the story focuses on a somewhat sleazy Japanese businessman (who is overly fascinated with sex) who gets promoted to the LA division of his job where he takes up new residency. These two characters come together when the businessman's daughter is kidnapped and thrown into the prostitute ring.

There's a sub-story involving the businessman foolishly trying to diddle Bronson's daughter on a bus, which turns Bronson into a pretty mean bigot. When the daughter and businessman meet up again for a potentially intense and bad-ending scene, nothing happens.

Very disappointing. Aside from that, Kinjite is said to be Bronson's best action movie, to which I highly disagree with. The film is sprinkled with some fun and entertaining scenes, especially a rousing climax and one of those perfect comeuppance endings for a villain, but overall, I was left feeling just a tab but under satisfied.

Definitely not a bad film, but I've personally enjoyed other Bronson films more so than this one.