Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky

Siu-Wong Fan (Actor), Mei Sheng Fan (Actor), Ngai Choi Lam (Director, Writer) Rated:

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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!

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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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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Ngai Choi Lam
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 31 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ July 18, 2000
Actors ‏ : ‎ Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho, Yukari Ôshima, Kan-Wing Tsang
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Producers ‏ : ‎ Chan Tung Chow, John Sirabella, Lam Chua
Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ Tokyo Shock
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00004TJM8
Writers ‏ : ‎ Masahiko Takajo, Ngai Choi Lam, Tetsuya Saruwatari
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Bill Boozer

Mortal Kombat has nothing on Riki-Oh!!!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017

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I heard about this movie in a Grindhouse/Exploitation movie group on Facebook. Everybody thst raffled about it had so much love for this film thst I had to order it and check it out.

HOLY COW. This movie is so fantastically nuts it's amazing!!! The basic story is that a mysterious inmate named Riki shows up at a corrupt maximum security prison full of a bizarre group of criminals. Each cell block is controlled by a powerful martial arts master criminal. Riki must fight his way through them all to get to the evil warden.

When I say he fights his way THROUGH them, he really does. It is super gory and violent, but in a kind of over the top way. I swear that Mortal Kombat got a lot of their finishing moves from this movie. It is AMAZING. Exploding limbs, hearts getting ripped out, heads getting punched through. It is really something to see.

This instantly became one of my favorite martial arts movies of all time, even though the fight choreography isn't as tight as a lot of Kung Fu movies, it makes up for it in pure carnage.

You simply HAVE to see it to believe it.

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Thomas

this dvd will not play

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2018

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good movie, but this product is BS from a gray market seller and the dvd didnt work for me

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Jimmy V

DOES NOT WORK ON ANY SYSTEM

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2017

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I bought the DVD version and DID NOT work on my PS3, PS4, or my imac. Did every known internet update on the systems to fix the problem and found no solution.

It should work, it IS a region 1 DVD, but it just doesn't.

So I'm buying the blu ray version to see if it works.

Buyer beware. Not the sellers fault. Received my item just as promised but the DVD is faulty.

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SLAVE

It's a great version even though the picture is a bit rough ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2014

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DVD Review: Pertaining to the Tokyo Shock version. It's a great version even though the picture is a bit rough but it's overall very watchable. It has Chinese and English audio with English subs in 1:85 ratio.

Blu Ray Version: A small little f*** up has occurred within this blu-ray. When the movie plays it's in full screen. You'll have to alter the opinions on your TV to widescreen to get the 1:78 aspect. To me it's minor but it's sort of moronic. Anyways, the picture quality hasn't changed much but I don't care. I like crappy picture. You have three audio options" English, Mandarin and Cantonese with readable subs. What gives this blu-ray SOME greatness is an interview with the main actor, Fan Siu Wong. The interview is 19 minutes long but it's a great interview about his life growing up and learning martial arts, his father, his time in the movie business and his thoughts on the movie Story Of Ricky which is great. He has a very buoyant personality and all that s***! Also some g@y s*** with some director.

Movie review: This is my 2nd favorite movie of all time. It is a gore movie but it's the type of gore movie I like. It's story and unintentional humor is what makes this movie golden. Plus the martial arts action, violence, OST, acting and so forth consummates the brilliance this movie has to offer. Perfect in every way.

Conclusion: 4 stars for the DVD, 4 1/2 for the Blu-Ray and 5 stars for Story Of Ricky.

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a.l.

so that he can be devastated when they are invariably horribly killed minutes after meeting them

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018

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possibly the movie i have ever seen.

Riki is a hero for the ages. he's an overpowered idiot who forges instant lifelong connections with people he's just met, so that he can be devastated when they are invariably horribly killed minutes after meeting them; and so that he can avenge them in a hilariously gory manner.

just the best.

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Pedal Man

Cheesy goodness

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2016

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Ricky was born with superhuman strength, thugs kill his sister, he kills them. That's shown in flashback. The movie starts with Ricky arriving in jail. He wants no trouble, but the won't submit to the prison bullies who work for the sadistic warden. That's as complicated as the plot gets. Weak story, gleefully cheesy gore effects(e.g., bad guy cuts his arm with a machete, Ricky ties the cut tendons back together with his teeth, finds he can still make a fist, continues to fight, etc.), pretty much hilariously bad. I loved it! If you like the cheesy B's, give The Story of Ricky a chance.

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jeremy nuttle

the movie is amazing and one of my favorites so you can imagine ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2018

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this delivery was awful. the disc was loose AND DOES NOT WORK IN ANY DVD PLAYER, its not even a factory sold disc and it was late even after i ordered it for a specific date. the movie is amazing and one of my favorites so you can imagine how upsetting this is. but whoever these copies are coming from is a rip off. im just mad i cant get my money back an find a better actual release...

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G. Meldrum

Hey Ricky, you're so fine...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2010

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Ridiculous. Over-the-top. Hilarious. Demented. Do any of these words really do justice to this brilliant but quite insane film? Probably not. But make no mistake. `Story of Ricky' may have been filmed on a miniscule budget and with virtually no concessions at all to realism or even consistency, but it is 87 minutes of pure, undiluted entertainment of the highest order and about as much fun as movies get. It also makes Jackie Chan's `City Hunter' look like the work of Ingmar Bergman by comparison!

Fan Siu-wong is Riki Ho (or Ricky Oh), imprisoned for slaying the sleazy drug-dealer who caused the death of Ricky's girlfriend. Once he's incarcerated, Ricky finds himself dealing with those old prison film mainstays: bullying inmates, corrupt authority figures and cell-block hard-men. But that brief synopsis, applicable to all too many undistinguished action films, doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of how crazy this flick is.

For starters, there's the violence. Exaggerated and super-gory don't even begin to cover it. Trained by his Uncle Ghost, Ricky is superhumanly strong to a cartoonish, comic-book degree (apt enough, given this film's basis in Japanese manga), and this leads to some magnificently mad conflicts. Holes are punched in stomachs, fists are disintegrated, eyeballs go flying and are eaten by birds, heads are thumped clean off, people are skinned alive, razorblades are consumed, and limbs are forced into meat-grinders. As other reviewers have observed, if this was remotely realistic, it'd be nightmarish. But while the cheap 'n' cheerful special effects are great fun, everything is so deliberately ludicrous that the whole hyper-kinetic spectacle is an unforgettable 'splatstick' joy.

And of course, there are the characters. The film has the feel of a 90s beat-`em-up video game, with a serious of consecutively harder `bosses' for Ricky to combat. There's the fatman who ate the warden's horse (one of the rare spectacles the film denies us a chance to see!), the thug who planes a man's face with a woodwork tool, and the Gang of Four, a motley crew of inmates who each hold mastery over one wing of the prison. Each, of course, has their own fighting specialities (from simple brute force to wielding what looks like a pair of knitting needles, yarn attached!) and distinctive appearances. Indeed, one is in fact an actress playing an understandably effeminate male role! And on the side of order there's the Warden (you wouldn't like him when he's angry...) who wields an explosive pistol and has a fat, obnoxious, candy-guzzling little son. The biggest villain of the piece, however, is Cyclops, the monocular assistant warden, a man who keeps mints in his false eye, torments our hero with his hooked artificial hand, and meets one of the funniest fates in the film. And that's not to forget Ricky himself, a moral crusader who sets off metal detectors due to the number of bullets he's got rattling around inside him, a man whose limbs seem able to take massive damage and be oddly unscathed in the next scene, a man who punches gravestones apart for laughs, a man, nay, a god amongst lesser mortals.

Downsides? Well, as noted, this is a very low budget piece, and clearly all the money has gone into the gore effects, meaning that the actual prison sets are very bland, `vanilla' and characterless for a supposedly `futuristic' facility. But the film still manages to fit in bizarre visual spectacles, like an inmate strung up on a vast crucifix, so it's hardly as if it's lacking in visual flair. Besides, the pace and performances have so much energy and enthusiasm, the film is more than carried by them.

Overall then, if your sense of humour does not extend to watching one man pull out his own intestines and try to strangle another man with them, steer well clear. For the rest of us, this is an absolutely unmissable piece of cinema.

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s.fallout

OPEN PRISON

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2015

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Even if you hate martial arts movies
i would still say you must check out
this movie. I had this years ago on VHS,
the print was so bad it it fluctuated between
colour and black & white (great days!).
It's a FANTASTICALLY gory madman of a film,
a Category 3 (for violence) graded picture if i'm
not mistaken. Despite what some might say, i'ts
well executed & a truck load of fun (remember fun?).
If your a gorehound, you'll love this. If your looking
for something different & 'out there', you'll love this.
If your drunk off your face wearing a traffic cone on your
head with someone else's vomit in your hair, you'll still love this.
Oh yeah, nearly forgot, this is the R1 Unrated version, the picture
quality is good enough & fills the entirety of a modern screen (1.78:1).
Sparse extras.
GLORIA YIP

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Darren

Ricky Ooooooooo!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2013

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I am a Massive fan of Hong kong action Movies, mainly the old school ones, that and Drunken men's Movies i.e over the top big time Movies!!! This Movie is ridiculous full stop! the plot, acting, characters, Gore and action, are pure genius and a great laugh! Punching someone so hard they explode, i mean COME ON!!! people what more can you ask for! Fans of Asian action should give this a go, or those who just love Madness in it purest form, BRILLIANT!!!

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Johnny

If you don't like gore, don't buy it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2019

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Schlock chop socky gore filled madness with a typically over the top storyline. I can see why this was banned for so long. It's so dreadful but so engaging that you have to keep watching to find out how much more gory it's going to get.

Evan

So bad its good!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2014

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This movie is a pretty fun ride as long as you don't take it too seriously...or even slightly serious!
I got a great laugh out of the practical effects and ended up quite enjoying the movie over all. One to bring the guys around for & have a few beers!

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