Ricky-oh: The Story Of Ricky (1991)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 1
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In the year 2001, many government institutions have become privatized commercial ventures, like the men's prison where young Riki-Oh (Sui-Wong Fan) is sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter and assault. The ruthless gangsters who control the prison break an old man's face open in the prison lavatory as the film begins. The nearly superhuman Ricky trips one of the guards so his face is impaled on a spiked board in retaliation, and vows to avenge the old man when he hangs himself in despair. When
Jan 1, 2002 Wide
Jan 6, 2004
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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (1) | DVD (7)
If you can handle the torrent of grisly violence, you'll find yourself royally entertained by this Hong Kong actioner.
Top CriticA rather astonishing, starkly stylized blood flood set inside a privatized prison.
A wild martial arts feature that combines a prison movie setting with the sort of gore effects one normally finds in a horror film.
Gore galore but not much more.
You should have been running to the video store before you got to this sentence.
like an old Shaw Brothers film that's been co-produced by Lucio Fulci
Apart from Ichi the Killer, it is the only live-action film ever to capture the anarchic, excessive, highly stylised violence of manga.
Nam ... delivers an amusing and exceedingly cinematic comic-book phantasmagoria.
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Foreign Titles
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lik Wong) (DE)
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lik Wong) (UK)
