Line #11 Film/KinjiteForbiddenSubjects


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3	''Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects'' is a 1989 [[Creator/TheCannonGroup Cannon]] film starring Creator/CharlesBronson. The film is the final movie J. Lee Thompson directed and was one of Bronson's final film roles, the other one being the reprisal of his Paul Kersey role for the final film of the ''Film/DeathWish'' series.
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5	Bronson plays another renegade cop out for vigilante justice on the mean streets. Lt. Crowe's target is Duke, a ruthless pimp who runs a child prostitution ring. This scumbag likes to kidnap teenage girls, rape them, hook them on drugs and put them out on the street. Because of Duke's slick craftiness and the fact that potential witnesses are unwilling to testify, Crowe is having a hard time taking him down. Duke's latest victim is a Japanese businessman's young daughter, who Crowe has been assigned to rescue.
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7	Crowe, like many of Bronson's other characters, gets so fed up with Duke's actions that he takes the law into his own hands, firebombing the pimp's car and forcing him to eat his own $25,000 watch before issuing an ultimatum: quit the business now, or else. Duke, naturally, isn't inclined to do what Crowe says and continues his vile trade, which sets the stage for a violent confrontation.
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9	!!Tropes in this film:
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11	* 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, leading to the speculation that this film was cobbled together from two plots: one in which Bronson must rescue the daughter of a [[FishOutOfWater Japanese businessman]], and one in which his own daughter is pimped out.
12	* BadassBoast: Duke's [[Creator/DannyTrejo new cellmate]]:
13	-> Hey, guys, I got me a new mama! And when I'm through with this bitch, she's gonna walk out of this cellblock wearing a strapless and heels!
14	* BigBad: Duke, a pimp specialized in exploiting innocent underage girls.
15	* BreakTheCutie: Fumiko, the innocent, polite schoolgirl, falls prey to a pimp through those defining virtues, is [[SexSlave sexually enslaved]], and even after being rescued is DrivenToSuicide by her [[DefiledForever shame]].
16	* BullyingADragon: after Duke and Crowe have become acquainted, the former encounters the latter at a football game with his daughter and says Crowe should pimp her out because he would make a lot of money.
17	* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule: Crowe sends his daughter Rita to parochial school but feels it has not produced [[MyGirlIsNotASlut the intended results]].
18	* ChekhovsGun: Fumiko's suicide note is an ambiguous {{Haiku}} which Crowe eventually figures out is a message informing him of Duke's whereabouts, hiding out on a boat.
19	* 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, [[CultureClash resulting in immediate retaliation]].
20	* CowboyCop: Lt. Crowe
21	* 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. Hada struggles with the consent element of the EthicalSlut paragdim, while Crowe struggles with sexual expression.
22	* HeelRealization: Following his own groping attempt and how his daughter Fumiko was kidnapped into prostitution, Hada most likely has this upon realizing what it's like to be one the receiving end of such sexual exploitation.
23	* HopeSpot: After Fumiko has been taken on house calls to several johns, the next person she's brought to is a woman, who talks to her sympathetically about her situation and how hard it is to be a FishOutOfWater ... only to reveal [[FauxAffablyEvil her sympathetic attitude is only the introduction to a molestation fantasy]].
24	* InformedAttractiveness: numerous men on the cellblock describe Duke as "pretty" which does not exactly fit the looks of his actor.
25	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: after finishing her swim race, Rita happily poses for photos in her swimsuit, hamming it up for the camera, seemingly unaware of what others (particularly her father) might take from her behavior.
26	* InterruptedIntimacy: Crowe walks in on his fifteen-year-old daughter on the couch with her boyfriend with his zipper [[SexualEuphemism "at half mast".]] Crowe is not pleased.
27	* {{Irony}}: Hada sexually molests Crowe's daughter on a public bus and escapes without being identified. Immediately thereafter his own daughter is kidnapped and sexually enslaved, and Crowe is assigned to find her.
28	* 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.
29	* 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.
30	* LaserGuidedKarma: See above, that's the whole [[AnAesop aesop]] of the film when it comes to child prostitution.
31	** Duke, locked up, winds up [[PrisonRape getting acquainted with his cellmate]].
32	** Hada, the Japanese businessman who gropes Crowe's daughter on a public bus, gets away but is randomly mugged and beaten up shortly thereafter, and right after that his own daughter is kidnapped and sexually enslaved.
33	* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Crowe gets a blissful smile on his face as he hears Duke, now in the hands of his [[PrisonRape cellmate]], screaming for help.
34	* MadeASlave: the film devotes an uncomfortably long time to the process of breaking Fumiko in. At the end of the process Duke shows her off in a little ceremony to his other prostitutes, who celebrate her being "open for business".
35	* 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 IV being directed by ''Kinjite'' helmer J. Lee Thompson.
36	* 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, felt genuinely guilty for what he done to her and probably had learned his lesson when his daughter was on the receiving end of sexual molestation this time, she recognizes him as well but [[KarmaHoudini does not identify him]] [[{{Anticlimax}} to her father]].
37	* PaedoHunt: Innocent Japanese men are beaten up by members of the public looking for Hada, Rita Crowe's groper.
38	* ParentalIncest: [=DeeDee=] doesn't mind being pimped out by Duke because it's better than being at home where her stepfather's been sharing her with his friends since she was 12.
39	* PrisonRape: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcp5GAvYN3k The ending]].
40	-->'''Crowe''': Now that's justice.
41	-->''Poetic'' justice (it's a KarmicRape)
42	* SexSlave: Fumiko is [[MadeASlave made one of these]], and then Duke [[KarmicRape becomes one at the end]].
43	* SexualEuphemism:
44	** When the Japanese businessman sticks his hand up Crowe's daughter's skirt on the bus, she exclaims that someone touched her "holy of holies!"
45	** Crowe takes some guff from his colleagues for this because, despite being a tough, experienced vice cop detective, when [[ItsPersonal it's his own daughter who has been molested]] he [[CannotSpitItOut cannot speak in an entirely clinical manner about it]].
46	* 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 SuddenDownerEnding despite the LaserGuidedKarma dealt out to her pimp.
47	* SignificantWardrobeShift: Fumiko goes through a couple of these. When Duke kidnaps her he changes her from her [[{{Joshikousei}} school uniform]] to a 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.
48	* SoftWater: Subverted- when Crowe and his Partner drop one of Duke's henchmen off the balcony, he dies when he lands in the swimming pool.
49	* TroubledSympatheticBigot: One of [[NobleBigotWithABadge 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.
50	* SuicideByPills: 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.
51	* VigilanteMan: Bronson was good at playing these, and this film is no exception.
52	* WretchedHive: Prison, apparently, is a wretched hive of PrisonRape, because literally every guy on the cell block wants to rape Duke even though most of them have likely not learned yet about the crimes he's being locked up for.
53	* YoYoPlotPoint: Crowe violently attacks Duke more than once before finally taking care of him for good.

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