Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
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| Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects | |
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| Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
| Produced by | Pancho Kohner |
| Written by | Harold Nebenzal |
| Starring | Charles Bronson Perry Lopez Juan Fernández James Pax Peggy Lipton Sy Richardson Bill McKinney |
| Music by | Greg De Belles |
| Cinematography | Gideon Porath |
| Editing by | Mary E. Jochem Peter Lee-Thompson |
| Distributed by | Cannon Films |
| Release date(s) | February 3, 1989 (USA) |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
| Gross revenue | $3,416,846 (USA) |
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is a 1989 action/drama film starring Charles Bronson and directed by J. Lee Thompson. The film was critically blasted upon its release because of its controversial plot and extremely graphic violence.[citation needed] This was J. Lee Thompson's last film as well as the last film he made with Charles Bronson.
[edit] Premise
The film concerns a vice cop (Bronson) who searches for a Japanese businessman's daughter who has been forced into a child prostitution ring, the same Japanese businessman who groped Bronson's teenaged daughter on a city bus (unbeknownst to Bronson).
[edit] Plot
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A Japanese businessman sees a woman being groped in a crowded Tokyo subway. He is interested to see how she rather moan silently when she gets an involuntary orgasm than let people know she is being groped. When he is transferred to Los Angeles, the Japanese businessman tries to imitate what he saw by groping who happens to be Lt. Crowe (Bronson)'s daughter. But unlike in Japan, the American woman raises a commotion and makes him run away.
Meanwhile, the daughter of the same Japanese businessman is kidnapped into a child prostitution ring. Lt. Crowe, who claims the Japanese are in the process of buying Los Angeles, is recruited to find the daughter.
Lt. Crowe and his partner indeed find the daughter, and Lt. Crowe changes his opinions about the Japanese when the Japanese businessman and his wife visit his house bearing gifts. Lt. Crowe's daughter recognizes the Japanese businessman but says nothing.
Back at home, the Japanese businessman's daughter cannot cope with what happened to her back in the ring, and commits suicide by overdose of heroin.
Lt. Crowe and his partner thus go to find the ring's owner by any means necessary. In the ensuing fight, the ring's owner manages to kill Lt. Crowe's partner, but - not knowing how to swim - almost drowns in the process of the fight. Lt. Crowe does answer his calls for help, but arranges for the long haired thin guy to be put in jail with a bunch of would be rapists.
