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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:8

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: An excessively gory, over-the-top adaptation of the extreme manga "Riki Oh." When his drug-addled girlfriend commits suicide, the titular hero kills her dealer and finds himself locked up in a... An excessively gory, over-the-top adaptation of the extreme manga "Riki Oh." When his drug-addled girlfriend commits suicide, the titular hero kills her dealer and finds himself locked up in a privatized prison where the accused have no rights. The other inmates torture Ricky with any available implement, but he fights back with a bloody vengeance. You know that head that gets smashed at the beginning of every episode of THE DAILY SHOW? That's from this movie. [More]

Starring: Fan Siu-Wang, Yukari Oshima, Frankie Chin, Gloria Yip

Starring: Fan Siu-Wang, Yukari Oshima, Frankie Chin, Gloria Yip, Kuo Chui

Director: Lan Nai Kai

Director: Lan Nai Kai

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If you can handle the torrent of grisly violence, you'll find yourself royally entertained by this Hong Kong actioner.

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03/12/08
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
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A wild martial arts feature that combines a prison movie setting with the sort of gore effects one normally finds in a horror film.

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Douglas Pratt
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A rather astonishing, starkly stylized blood flood set inside a privatized prison.

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Michael Atkinson
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Gore galore but not much more.

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Beth Accomando
Beth Accomando
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You should have been running to the video store before you got to this sentence.

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12/24/05
Kurt Ramschissel
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02/01/04
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Apart from Ichi the Killer, it is the only live-action film ever to capture the anarchic, excessive, highly stylised violence of manga.

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10/28/03
Anton Bitel
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Keith H. Brown
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Nam ... delivers an amusing and exceedingly cinematic comic-book phantasmagoria.

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Gregory Weinkauf
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