Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky
by Ngai Kai Lam
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Actor: Frankie Chin, Ka-Kui Ho, Mei Sheng Fan, Siu-Wong Fan, Yukari ?shimaDirector: Ngai Kai Lam
Brand: Media Blasters
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Tokyo Shock
DVD Reviews of Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky
DVD Review: Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is great if you like gore. One of the most violent gore movies you can watch.DVD Review: Riki-Oh
Summary: 5 Stars
I was so happy when I found this on Amazon. This dvd is hard to find and it was at a good price. Bloody and funny wrapped into one, what more could you ask for?DVD Review: riki-oh!
Summary: 5 Stars
probably one of the most funny gore-flicks ever
a must see, story is weak but riki is anything but weak
DVD Review: RENT IT FIRST!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have just done that FIRST!!! No way would I have purchased it!!! However I went by way of some of the reviews. Not a good thing!! The movie had good production values however the acting was WEAK, and I was really hoping for MORE OVERALL. This film was talked about in a review I read a of the film "Dead Alive" which was WAY BETTER!!! If I were you rent it first before you consider purchasing it!!!!!DVD Review: One of the all-time great exploitation films
Summary: 5 Stars
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is a truly bizarre film. It's a hybrid exploitation film combining the prison movie, the martial arts movie, and the gore-fest. Oh yeah, and with supervillains that somehow have magical powers. There's some hilarious over-acting, plenty of terrible dialogue, and at least a couple totally illogical twists. Basically, it's everything you want in an exploitation flick.
The big question with exploitation is always about the 'fun' factor. There are the "so bad it's good" movies that continually amuse us with their utter ineptitude such as "Plan Nine from Outer Space", and then there are movies that are just bad - not funny, not campy, but merely boring. The latter is usually found in huge collections called things like "Grind House Cinema Collection! 50 Movies on 3 DVDs!" Riki-Oh is clearly the former. It's amusing from start to finish. The pacing is fast and there are more than enough hilarious and/or disgusting sights to maintain one's interest for its 90-minute duration.
The downside is that the film was released by the Tokyo Shock studio - a studio synonymous with terrible VHS-quality transfers, distorted sound, and no worthwhile extras. Tokyo Shock needs to stop producing DVDs and let some other more capable studio take over.
The bottom line: any fan of exploitation cinema needs to own this, especially gore fans. There are some things in this films that I've never seen anywhere else, but I'll leave those for you to find yourself. I've seen countless exploitations films in all flavors and this is easily in my top ten. Buy it and enjoy!
Description of Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky
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!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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