cult film freak: CHARLES BRONSON'S LAST CANNON 'KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS'

Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2

The final Cannon production starring Charles Bronson (and director J. Lee Thompson) couldn't be more of an exploitation flick (surpassing even DEATH WISH 2), spending more time on the underage girls of a sleazy pimp than Bronson and detective partner Perry Lopez are trying to figure things out...

In KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS, initially/ironically involving a sex-obsessed Japanese father whose daughter (Kumiko Hayakawa) winds up one the youngest, most vulnerable victims of an underground sex-slave market...

Charles Bronson in KINJITE: FORBIDDEN SECRETS

Opening with blonde starlet Nicole Eggert as the most experienced, the actual leading young-lady's Amy Hathaway, even blonder, cuter and who just so happens to be Bronson's daughter, on the verge of the neon-noir-inspired criminal web led by CROCODILE DUNDEE II villain Juan Fernández...

Perhaps one of the sleaziest villains in Bronson cinema... providing the usual gun-blasting DEATH WISH-style vengeance that happens far too late to matter: overall making KINJITE more glossy expose than edgy crime-thriller.