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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Media Blasters EAN: 9781586550240 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 1586550241 Item Dimensions: Label: Tokyo Shock Languages: Manufacturer: Tokyo Shock MPN: TSDVD-0086 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tokyo Shock Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 05, 2000 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Tokyo Shock Theatrical Release Date: 1992 Editorial Review: Product Description: A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system. The story is set in the year of 2001 in a prison owned by a major company. A new prisoner sees his friends being harassed and killed by the guards and seeks his revenge.System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Rating: R UPC: 631595008623 Manufacturer No: TSDVD-0086 Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - One of the all-time great exploitation filmsRiki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is a truly bizarre film. It's a hybrid exploitation film combining the prison movie, the martial arts movie, and the gore-fest. Oh yeah, and with supervillains that somehow have magical powers. There's some hilarious over-acting, plenty of terrible dialogue, and at least a couple totally illogical twists. Basically, it's everything you want in an exploitation flick. The big question with exploitation is always about the 'fun' factor. There are the "so bad ... Read More Rating:  - The Greatest, Most Re-Watchable Guilty Pleasure, Ever."Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky" is a movie that's best served to those not expecting it, like walking in a room where it's playing or renting it with no idea of what it's like, which is violence first, everything else a distant second. In a lot of ways it reminds me of a variation of the "Dead Alive" kind of gore, which is gore that keeps increasing and increasing to the point of gut-busting hilarity by the end of the movie. I say variation though, because while Dead Alive deals out the gore in doses ... Read More Rating: - Non-stop gore and complete hilarity.Enter the world of privatized Chinese prisons, where individual companies own and control the prisoners lives. In this tangle of a story we meet Riki-Oh a gifted student of a powerful martial art and follow him through his odd search for justice and random outbreaks of pain and grief. If one watches this movie the same way you would watch a comedy, they will get a lot of fun out of it.. but, as with most martial arts movies, if you take it too seriously you will end up disappointed. Rating:  - Gore, gore, and more goreSave your money unless your just want something to watch to kill some time. The martial art action scenes where not that great (but they were gory), and the story is very weak. Just don't do it! Rating: - ...brutal!unrealistic...but thats the point. black comedy at its best! Kung-Fu, Gore, hilarious voice overs, awesome fight scenes. only way to describe this movie, BRUTAL AS HELL!!! watch this movie, then watch this movie and listen to Deicide...you will not be dissapointed! |
