Product Description

Action superstar Charles Bronson (Death Wish, Breakheart Pass) is at his two-fisted best in this gritty, action-packed thriller about a cop hellbent on wiping out a vicious child prostitution ring. Lt. Crowe (Bronson) is a veteran LA vice cop who nearly goes berserk after his young daughter is molested by an unidentified Asian man. As he battles his own racial prejudices and feelings of rage, Crowe is ordered to hunt down a brutal pimp who has kidnapped the daughter of a Japanese businessman. Hindered by police force superiors, Crowe is pushed into a personal war of vengeance, pitting himself against a savage urban empire of drugs and sexual depravity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20169 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-02-04
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Customer Reviews

A crude but revealing picture to watch!

After the demolishing success of Death Wish, Charles Bronson in his accustomed style of elegant roughness, makes a convincing role as a detective who has to face with a gang who exploits teen girls to prostitution. The script is credible and shows us the dark side of the moon. Bitter and dark humor are intermingled with the expected doses of violence in these usual cases, but the result is satisfactory.

If you realize the last sequence you will understand you agree with Bronson in that sardonic smile. eye for eye.

Pronounced: Kin-ji-tae
While being a film of questionable subject matter, this is not a badly made film. Cinematography, editing, score and performances were a bit above average for Bronsons later flicks. I do find it strange that Bronson would take on such a distatseful premise for a plot. Not a whole lot of action in ths one, more of a 'cop investigates crime' plot than the 'blow away punks' that we're used to. This film is mostly for Bronson addicts and completeists. Before watching this one, just make sure that you've seen The Stone Killer, Hard Times, all the Death Wish, Breakout, From Noon till Three, Violent City, The Mechanic and Mr. Majestyk first. Remember, Bronson was never bad, just in bad films...

Funniest 80s Bronson flick ever, and one of his best Cannon entries
There's a trend with Charles Bronson's 80s Cannon flicks: the more that came out, the funnier each one got. The first one, 1982's 'Death Wish II' was a morbid and dark flick that had basically zero humor throughout its sleaze-soaked run time. As sequels 'Death Wish 3' and 'Death Wish 4: The Crackdown' came out, the unintentional humor was hitting all-time highs. For me though, it's 'Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects' that remains the funniest Bronson vehicle of the 80s. Oh, and it's a great action flick in its own right too.

The hilarity comes from a myriad of things: hilarious thugs that Bronson fights, risible dialogue (after walking in on a man about to violate a teen prostitute with a dildo, the man yells "YOU CAN'T COME IN LIKE THAT AND DISTURB SOMEONE'S PRIVACY YOU S.O.B.!" - both the dialogue and the manner of its delivery is hilarious), and many other things such as an editing mistake in a drive-by shooting scene where the same black man is shot and killed THREE TIMES IN A ROW. Bronson throws people through (cardboard) dressers, forces pimps to swallow their watches (then sets their car on fire while they're choking), violates johns with their own sex toys (then wonder if it'll cause him to "lose his pension"), and in one scene, upon busting a hotel porn shoot, fights a guy who does a battle roar and makes the funniest battle face ever before getting owned by Bronson (a screenshot of this is my Amazon profile pic, check it out).

As you can see, the main value in this piece is its ridiculousness, the kind of unintentional awesomeness that is so common in 80s action vehicles. BUT the film stands its own as an action vehicle as well, although the body count is tiny and it's slower at time it's still a take-no-prisoners Bronson flick all the way.

In short, fans of Charles Bronson and 80s action need to check this one out. Though most Bronson fans claim 'Death Wish 3' to be his most unintentionally funny 80s Cannon flick, my pick for that honor is 'Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects." Good stuff.