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Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky

starring: Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho, Yukari Ôshima, Frankie Chin
directed by: Ngai Kai Lam

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Media Blasters
EAN: 9781586550240
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1586550241
Label: Tokyo Shock
Manufacturer: Tokyo Shock
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tokyo Shock
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 05, 2000
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 9783
Studio: Tokyo Shock
Theatrical Release Date: 1992



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Description:
When mild-mannered Ricky takes revenge on the drug pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend, he is sentenced to a maximum security prison. Within these walls lies a penitentiary like no other, run by a host of evil characters. A sadistic warden, his sniveling assistant, and the powerful Gang of Four all control the inmates through terror and brutal death!

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One of the most absurdly violent films ever made, this outrageous comic book of a movie is short on style but makes up for it in sheer audacity and excess. Brooding street kid Ricky Ho (Fan Siu Wang, playing the part of avenging angel with self-righteous earnestness) walks into the corrupt corporate prison system with superpowered martial arts skills and proceeds to punch his way through every bullying thug and sadistic guard who comes his way. Literally. His fist puts a gaping hole through the stomach of a giant sumo-wrestler-sized thug and the jaw of a pompadoured bully, and turns the skull of a pathetic guard into a bloody stump. As Ricky becomes a hero to the downtrodden prisoners, the assistant warden (who keeps breath mints in his removable glass eye) organizes the dreaded 'gang of four,' the cell block gang leaders, to take Ricky down. Fat chance!

There's nothing realistic about the bone-shattering, blood-splattering spectacle of crushed heads and snapped limbs, but the unrestrained display becomes so preposterously grotesque it hardly matters. You'll be convinced that the 'Oh' in Riki-Oh stands for 'Oh my God, did I really see that?' Yes, Ricky really does tie a sliced tendon with his teeth, a thug cuts open his gut and uses his own intestines to strangle Ricky, and the warden (for no apparent reason) puffs himself up into a giant rubber ogre. Ricky's curvy, feminine nemesis Rogan is played by Yukari Oshima, the butt-kicking, all-woman star of Angel and others. --Sean Axmaker



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - riki-oh!
probably one of the most funny gore-flicks ever
a must see, story is weak but riki is anything ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - RENT IT FIRST!!!!
I should have just done that FIRST!!! No way would I have purchased it!!! However I went by way of some ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the all-time great exploitation films
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is a truly bizarre film. It's a hybrid exploitation film combining the prison ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Greatest, Most Re-Watchable Guilty Pleasure, Ever.
"Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky" is a movie that's best served to those not expecting it, like walking in a room ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Non-stop gore and complete hilarity.
Enter the world of privatized Chinese prisons, where individual companies own and control the prisoners lives. ... Read More

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