Movie Prisoners,
Chris G didn’t think we could handle the slowness of a 2 hour movie even if it contained a Nic Cage chainsaw fight at some point. So we went back into the vault and found “Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky” and sweet lord was it glorious.
I’m not well versed in the Kung-Fu movies, I went through a little bit of a Bruce Lee / Jackie Chan phase in high school, but I stuck to the classics. So this was not on my radar.
Plot… lets talk about plot.
I mean I guess there’s one in here but it really takes a backseat to the action and gore.
Ricky is put in jail for killing a drug dealer. Ricky is an unstoppable super human kung fu master. Ricky kills almost everyone and leads a prison riot, escapes. Ricky must forever walk the Earth because he has conquered death.
and that’s it.
At first you’re just going to laugh at the hilarious dubbing, then the low budget sets and stuff… then the crazy ‘punching through people’s faces‘ gore. Then it never stops. This thing just keeps chugging along. If you saw one of these death scenes in a low rent 80’s horror movie you would say… damn well that is worth it. There’s like 20 of them.
Just some of the Brutal Shit that happens…
- Jaws jet punched off
- heads get punched in half
- heads get punched clean off
- heads get eyes popped out
- arms broken in half
- he ties his tendon back together and keeps using his arm
- a guy tries to strangle him with his own intestines.
My personal favorite parts.
- The hilarious dubbing! especially the background guys ‘yeah! lets get em! yeah!’
- The dummy they threw off the roof, OH THE BOUNCE LANDING!
- every fight ends in a brutal fatality
- Ricky is UNSTOPPABLE, these things happen to him. (shot 5 times) (arm tendon chopped)(glass thrown in eyes)(buried alive for 7 days)
- Assistant Warden’s VHS porn collection, that is never mentioned.
- The warden’s 5 O’clock bald head shadow.
- Ricky punches through a guys hand, exploding it.
- The warden has a heart attack and then eats a bunch of candy to fix it.
Info
This movie made $2,147,778 HKD in Hong Kong.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki-Oh:_The_Story_of_Ricky
Based on a Manga, there’s also 2 Anime versionsCheck out the trailer, they look just as weird.
I’m going to attach a couple screenshots to keep it consistent… but dear lord there were a lot of them. Just every frame of this movie was madness.
If you weren’t there and don’t want to watch the whole movie, this guys review is pretty funny.
-Mark
If he was shot in the chest 6 or so times shouldn’t he have some kind of scar? Where did the guys get cigarettes? All of them have a cigarette and light up one after the other.The warden has exploding bullets and transforms like we’re now watching Dragon Ball Z? Why have the warden need medicine earlier? I thought they were doing some Chekov’s gun thing. That was long…
Charlie
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Chinese: 力王), also known as Story of Ricky, is a 1991 Hong Kong martial arts film written and directed by Lam Nai-Choi, and based on the Japanese manga Riki-Oh by Masahiko Takajo and Saruwatari Tetsuya. The film stars Fan Siu-wong, Fan Mei-sheng (Siu-wong's real-life father), Ho Ka-kui, Gloria Yip, and Yukari Oshima.
Fan Siu-wong plays Ricky Ho Lik Wong (Lik Wong is the character's given name, but the subtitles use the anglicized "Ricky") who is a young man who has super-human power and fighting abilities. Yukari Oshima stars as Huang Chung (Rogan in the English dub). The English title given on screen is simply Story of Ricky but later releases were sold under the title Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky. It had a limited theatrical release in the United States in 1993. It is well known for its acting, story, extremely brutal and highly unrealistic violence, as well as its high camp factor and extremely poor English dubbing (although versions in Cantonese and Mandarin are also available). The film is considered a cult film.[1]
source : wikipedia