History Film / KinjiteForbiddenSubjects

* TroubledSympatheticBigot: One of Crowe's main flaws is his racism toward Asians in general, which he ultimately has to swallow in order to rescue the businessman's daughter. Rita, his daughter, also complains (when asked to describe her attacker), that Asians look alike, but ultimately treats Hada (her molestor) sympathetically.

* OhCrap: After Hada's daughter has been rescued he comes over to Crowe's house to thank him with a gift for his daughter. Hada stares at her, terrified, when they are introduced because she is the girl he molested on the bus. Evidently feeling that he's been through enough, she recognizes him as well but [[KarmaHoudini does not identify him]] [[{{Anticlimax}} to her father]].

* MythologyGag: Rosario's is the name of a store Duke gets his fancy clothes at. Rosario was the name of Paul Kersey's ill-fated housekeeper in ''Film/DeathWishII'', with its last two sequels being directed by ''Kinjite'' helmer J. Lee Thompson.

* KnightTemplarParent: when Rita, Crowe's daughter, is at a swim meet some guy takes publicity photos of her in her (modest, one-piece) swimsuit and Crowe becomes upset, suggesting that she is dressed immodestly.

* PaedoHunt: innocent Japanese men are beaten up by members of the public looking for Hada, Rita Crowe's groper.

* JapanTakesOverTheWorld: the underlying anxiety that is one of the film's driving factors. Newly-arrived Japanese businessman Hada is a sexual menace to America's blonde teen girls, and the cops, trying in vain to identify him, complain that there are already 25000 Japanese businessmen in L.A. Downplayed, as America's indigenous non-white population turns out to be a worse sexual menace. Hada is allowed a HeelFaceTurn by the plot, Duke not so much.

* TheChikan: Two Japanese businessmen discuss the subject after one of them witnesses a woman being groped on the subway who does not loudly protest, both regarding it as a form of sexual fetishism. Later one of them drunkenly attempts the same thing on a business trip in the United States, [[ValuesDissonance resulting in immediate retaliation]].

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Fumiko goes through a couple of these. When Duke kidnaps her he changes her from her [[{{Joshikousei}} school uniform]] to a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] FilleFatale costume, and has a little ceremony where he shows her off to his other prostitutes, who celebrate her as being "open for business". After she's rescued, when she goes to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] she changes into a traditional Japanese robe.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Fumiko goes through a couple of these. When Duke kidnaps her he changes her from her [[Joshikousei school uniform]] to a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] FilleFatale costume, and has a little ceremony where he shows her off to his other prostitutes, who celebrate her as being "open for business". After she's rescued, when she goes to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] she changes into a traditional Japanese robe.

* {{Seppuku}}: While Duke does get what's coming to him big time, the film ends on a dark note as the Japanese girl that Crowe saved from him does this to expiate the shame of having been raped.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Crowe rescues the little girl he's been pursuing from a lifetime of sexual slavery but she [[DrivenToSuicide kills herself]] out of [[DefiledForever shame]], rendering his efforts to save her moot and producing a DownerEnding despite the LaserGuidedKarma dealt out to her pimp.

* TroubledSympatheticBigot: One of Crowe's main flaws is his racism toward Asians in general, which he ultimately has to swallow in order to rescue the businessman's daughter.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Fumiko goes through a couple of these. When Duke kidnaps her he changes her from her school uniform to a BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] FillFatale costume, and has a little ceremony where he shows her off to his other prostitutes, who celebrate her as being "open for business". After she's rescued, when she goes to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] she changes into a traditional Japanese robe.

* FishOutOfWater: Hada and Crowe (and Fumiko, once she's been kidnapped) are each, in their own way, uncomfortable in modern American culture and have difficulty reconciling to its sexual ethics.

* MadeASlave: the film devotes an uncomfortably long time to the process of breaking Fumiko in.

* AbortedArc: Duke, out scouting for new victims, seems to have identified Rita Crowe as his next target, but never gets around to it as his time is taken up with Fumiko.