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  • Actors: Charles Bronson, Perry Lopez, James Pax, Peggy Lipton, Juan Fernandez
  • Directors: J. Lee Thompson
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Jan 2006
  • Run Time: 93 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000BPNCVI
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,635 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Businessman Hiroshi Hada's teenage daughter has been kidnapped and enslaved by a prostitution ring. And Lt. Crowe, a cop who hates the Japanese, has been assigned to the case. Fortunately for Hada, there's one thing Crowe dislikes more than the Japanese, and that's teenage prostitution rings. As a result, Crowe is hellbent in his very violent efforts to nail the pimp. Will he succeed? This thriller starring Charles Bronson is one of the best of the action star's career. Directed by regular Bronson collaborator J. Lee Thompson ('10 To Midnight').

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2.0 out of 5 stars Rising Sun - the Alf Garnett Version, 18 Feb 2009
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Offering a killer combo of terrible writing, terrible acting and terrible direction, it's a tossup whether Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is offensively bad or just hilariously bad. It's almost as if someone ran a competition to make the sleaziest, seediest Cannon film. As if a glance at a cast list including characters like `Lesbian Pedophile,' `Perverted Gentleman,' `Porno Actress' weren't enough, it's your only chance to see Charles Bronson's cop throw a lowlife on a bed and grab a sex toy - but don't worry, it's okay, as the offscreen screams make clear he's only torturing him for information. After all, even if he is a bit overprotective of his nice Catholic daughter, he's a nice Catholic cop who regularly brings local Catholic priest William O'Connell a packed lunch and who believes in poetic justice - or at least ensuring that the bad guys end up in the slammer with the horniest inmates maximum security can provide to give them a taste of their own medicine. But then that's what you get for telling him "Look, I think you're a little bit unstable." Still, when later offered a bribe, he may snarl "I'd like to shove this up your a**, but I don't want to get my hands dirty," he's clearly learned where to draw the line: instead, he just makes him eat a $25,000 watch and sets fire to his Cadillac. The anal obsession even follows through to the film's title: despite the poster featuring a naked Japanese girl on a porn film set, the film's only direct example of Kinjite/forbidden subjects, as Alex Hyde White's English teacher explains to a group of Japanese businessmen, is, er talking about your bowel movements in polite society.

Bronson isn't just too old for this, as the opening fight makes only too clear, he's too old for love interest Peggy Lipton, and she looks old enough to have grown-up kids. A better actor than he ever got the credit for when given the right material, here's he's given less a properly thought out character than a series of outrageous reactionary quirks. When he's not widening the circles of suspects he's accidentally dropping them to their death off the sides of buildings. He's definitely not a P.C. copper, with a special loathing for the Japanese - as if it wasn't bad enough that they're buying up American businesses, what's worse, they double-park on a public thoroughfare! No racial minority goes unassaulted, be they black pimp or Pakistani hotel clerk, no cop cliché unrecycled, be it a boss who bangs his fist on the table or a dead meat partner (Perry Lopez and his spectacularly bad hair dye that's so prominent it deserves screen billing all its own). The twin plot strands - Bronson's L.A. cop trying to take down Juan Hernandez's pimp who deals in underage girls and James Pax's porn-obsessed Japanese businessman - take forever to intertwine, and then in the most unlikely of ways: after copping a feel of Bronson's daughter on a bus ("Some Oriental guy touched my holy of holies!"), in the film's idea of poetic justice Pax finds his own daughter kidnapped by Hernandez. You half expect the writer to pop his head round the corner of the screen and say, "How d'ya like them apples?"

Somewhere underneath all the laziness is the germ of a good idea even if it is too muddily developed to ever be clear quite what that idea really is, but the execution is pure Rising Sun: the Archie Bunker Version, shot like out-takes from an R-rated 80s music video with an outrageous and rather lazy dockside shoot-'em-up-and-blow'em-up finale that sees a small army of machine-gunning sidekicks suddenly appear to up the gratuitous body count. The last of Bronson's mostly bad to in different collaborations with J. Lee Thompson - and sadly Thompson's last film as director - it's a poor signoff for two undervalued players who increasingly never seemed to be that discerning about what pictures they said yes to.


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5.0 out of 5 stars BRONSON'S LAST EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE, 11 Jun 2008
This movie - along with "10 to Midnight", "The Evil that Men do" and the first two "Death Wish" films - ranks high as one of Bronson's best films. Surely, it all has been seen before, but never as good as here. Bronson plays hardball - in his cool manner, as always - but this one is quite different as his previous films. Of course it has the vigilante theme, but Bronson is more cynical than ever. The ending of the film is one of the best I have ever seen.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Movies like this should be taught in school, 13 Feb 2008
By Nervosa (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews
For those who haven't already bought this based on the one star review below, let me assure you: this one choice sleaze-fest. I hope you won't mind if I give away the very first sequence. Bronson finds a John in a room with an underaged prostitute, handcuffs him, is about to haul him to the station. But wait: that wouldn't be justice enough! Bronson throws the perp down on the bed face-down, grabs a dildo and yanks off the guy's pants: "I'm going to show you how it feels!" Cut to Bronson in a soul searching moment with his wife: "I did a bad thing today, honey," he murmurs. And so it goes. Coming right at the end of the vigilante film boom, this one can't decide if Bronson is a hero or a racist psychopath. We're meant to root at him but there are offputting sequences of him hurling racist abuse at crowds of Japanese businessmen. There are also many sequences based around the troubled inner life of one such Japanese businessman that play like a seriously failed 'thought-provoking' arthouse movie. And Bronson makes a criminal swallow his own wristwatch! All in all, highly queasy viewing - if not quite as good as the easily 5 star 10 to Midnight (in which Bronson also brandishes a sex toy menacingly).

The DVD has an excellent anamorphic tranfer (albeit not as lurid as other Golan-Globus discs). The dialogue is sometimes mixed annoyingly low, but nothing to get too stressed about.
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