Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects ** (1989, Charles Bronson, Juan Fernández, Perry Lopez, Peggy Lipton) – Classic Movie Review 8464

In 1988, Peggy Lipton made her big-screen comeback after a long absence, and a year later co-starred opposite Charles Bronson in J Lee Thompson’s 1989 tough action thriller Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989).

Bronson is on the right side of the law this time as the brutal LAPD cop Lieutenant Crowe battling vice racketeer Duke (Juan Fernández), who abducts a Japanese businessman’s daughter and forces her into being part of his teen prostitution ring. Peggy Lipton plays Kathleen Crowe.

Some of the performances and the handling are mundane, bordering on the weary. But Harold Nebenzal’s screenplay is just a notch better than usual for this kind of action thriller.

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is passable, but none too modern feeling, exciting or edifying.

Also in the cast are Perry Lopez, James Pax, Sy Richardson, Bill McKinney, Marion Yue, Gerald Castillo, Nicole Eggert, Amy Hathaway and Alex Hyde White.

Kinjite comes from the Japanese word that means ‘to forbid’.

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RIP Peggy Lipton.