If you can handle the torrent of grisly violence, you'll find yourself royally entertained by this Hong Kong actioner.
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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Reviews for Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
A wild martial arts feature that combines a prison movie setting with the sort of gore effects one normally finds in a horror film.
A rather astonishing, starkly stylized blood flood set inside a privatized prison.
You should have been running to the video store before you got to this sentence.
Apart from Ichi the Killer, it is the only live-action film ever to capture the anarchic, excessive, highly stylised violence of manga.
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
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| 15% 15% | The Ugly Truth |
| 98% 98% | Up |
| 36% 36% | G.I. Joe: The Rise of … |
| 52% 52% | The Taking of Pelham 1… |
| 45% 45% | Ice Age: Dawn of the D… |
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
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| 36% 36% | Angels & Demons |
| 68% 68% | Funny People |
| 25% 25% | Four Christmases |
| 45% 45% | Shorts |
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