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
Cinematographer: Hoi-man Mak
Writer: Ngai Kai Lam
Editor: Chuen Dak Geung
Editor: Yiu Chung Cheng
Producer: Chan Dung Chow
Producer: Lam Chua
Writer: Tetsuya Saruwatari
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 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: Comic-book shocker with gallons of blood and gore!!
Summary: 4 Stars
STORY OF RICKY
[Li Wang]
(Hong Kong - 1991)
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Theatrical soundtrack: Mono
After killing the drug-addicted lowlife who murdered his fianc?e, an unlucky strongman (Terry Fan Siu-wong) is remanded to a corrupt prison where he's forced to defend himself against inmates and tyrannical officials, spilling gallons of blood and gore along the way...
Notorious for its splattery violence and hyper-stylized melodrama, STORY OF RICKY - derived from the Japanese manga 'Riki-Oh' created by Tetsuya Saruwatari - is directed by former cinematographer Simon Nam Nai-choi, whose earlier efforts (THE SEVENTH CURSE, EROTIC GHOST STORY, etc.) rarely scaled the same dizzy heights of outrage and audacity. Shot on a shoestring budget in Macao, the film combines high octane bloodshed with "Carry On"-style humor (watch out for the incredible moment when a character uses his intestines as a weapon!), mixed with visual references to earlier exploitation fare such as THE STREET FIGHTER (1974) and THE FURY (1978), though the makeup effects are rudimentary at best, in keeping with the film's comic-book tone.
Japanese actress Yukari Oshima takes second billing as one of the MALE villains (she's dubbed with a masculine voice), and fan favorite Gloria Yip (SAVIOUR OF THE SOUL) plays the hero's ill-fated girlfriend in a series of corny 'feel-good' flashbacks. But the film belongs to handsome, hunky Terry Fan, ripping his shirt off at the drop of an intestine and posing impressively for the various combat sequences. Clothed or unclothed, he's never less than magnificent to behold, and director Nam uses the actor's exaggerated studliness to lampoon the homoerotic spectacle which once fuelled 'golden age' kung fu pictures. It ain't Shakespeare, but trash/splatter fans will embrace the movie with gusto.
DVD Review: The Gung Fu version of "Plan 9 From Outer Space"
Summary: 5 Stars
If you understand that, for the Chinese culture, the martial arts 'hero' is akin to Superman and can fly and absorb gun fire without injury and fight 10 guys and kill them all and other such stuff, then the making and popularity of this film concept should be clear. If, like me, you just like a good laugh, it works as slapstick as well.
When you are so desperate to kill your opponent that you'll commit seppuku because you're short on rope at the moment and you need something to strangle the guy next to you (and haven't we ALL felt that way at one time or another?), you've really entered into the land of cinematic genius. Despite the completely absurd decapitations and delimbing karate chops, we have, in our midst, a truly great film, worthy of an exploding Academy Award.
DVD Review: Hillarious and AWESOME
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the PERFECT movie to watch with a group of friends for the teenager out there. (or anyone wishing they were still a teenager)
That is, provided you don't mind a villian with a hook for a hand who carries mints in his glass eye, corny and funny special effects, and some loose logic!
One of the best 'campy' / goofy / fun movies ever made!
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?
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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