| Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky | 
 enlarge | Director: Ngai Kai Lam
Actors: Siu-wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-kui Ho, Yukari Oshima, Frankie Chin
Studio: Tokyo Shock
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  104 reviews
Sales Rank: 22385
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: TSDVD-0086
ISBN: 1586550241
UPC: 631595008623
EAN: 9781586550240
ASIN: B00004TJM8
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: September 5, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 Everything you ever wanted out of a fighting movie July 19, 2007
The title says it all. Besides the excellent fighting sequences, these guys take the violence to another level; people strangling each other with their intestines, heads exploding, dismemberment, anything you can think of. Its completely crazy.
In case you need things explicitly stated, this movie is full of violence, gore, blood, and everything that is neither kid-tested nor mother-approved.
 I still don't know for sure if I watched this movie or if it was a really scary dream June 3, 2007
Fan Siu Wong stars as Ricky Ho, a young man with superhuman strength. The movie starts out showing his first day in jail. Since Ricky doesn't take nothin from nobody, he is not liked by the tough guys and they decide to kill him. Ricky's special move is punching through people's body. Most of the movie is spent showing Ricky using this special move. In one scene Ricky punches a guy in his throat and his hand goes through the mouth while he rips the jaw off. That isn't even the highlight. Ricky also has to chew razor blades and gets strangled by intestines. There are no female characters except for 1. We get brief glimpses of Ricky's girlfriend to show why he went to jail. Yukari Oshima plays a man for some reason, but she is good in her role.
The story is not memorable, but the gore has a lot of detail put into it. There are not any martial arts fights, but the bloody fun makes for one heck of a viewing experience. I could have used 1 really good fight. Fan Siu Wong is truly on another level. He is like a mix between Bruce Lee and Yuen Biao. Awesoem fist forms, great kicks, and he is ripped out of of his mind. His long hair and young face makes him perfect for a Japanese magna character, but the focus of the movie is on the extreme violence, not on martial arts action or anything else. Only recommended to those who like extremely campy gore.
3.5/5
Tokyo Shock DVD has good picture quality and good 5.1 English, Cantonese and Mandarin tracks. The English dub is well done, and the Cantonese is easier on the ears, but the English dub is a much better translation than the English subtitles.
Look for Dragon Dynasty to release this in the next year or so.
wow May 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hahaha this movie is hilarious. "Camp" does not do it justice. Describing scenes from it does not do it justice either, although the bit where a guy commits ritual suicide by slicing open his own gut, and then in a surprise move grabbing his own intestines and trying to strangle Riki with them is my personal favorite. Oh, also the scene with the meat grinder. And the random dog mutilation.
What you really need to know is that the box advertises the movie this way: "Includes the hilarious exploding head scene as seen in Comedy Central's The Daily Show!" That is ON THE BOX.
And really, when you've seen this movie, you won't even remember the exploding head, because so many styrofoam limbs, craniums, and other body parts have been mushed into ketchup pulp that such events--memorable in other movies--are naught but a drop in the bucket. No grindhouse b-movie has anything on this bloodbath, either in gore or in the low-quality special effects of said gore.
Other quality features of Riki-Oh! include hilarious and randomly timed flashbacks to Riki's girlfriend, who we find out was murdered by drug lords when she catches them in the act of doing drug-related things ("murdered" is relative, here: fleeing, she runs straight off a fifth-story balcony.): hilarious and randomly timed flashbacks to how Riki learned martial arts in one day. I'm not kidding. One. Day.: hilarious dubbing: hilarious "subtle" political metaphors, like how private prisons are corrupt and run by the "gang of four": hilarious... you get the idea. You need to see this movie.
Also I should mention that there's this other movie called "Fortress" which was made a few years later and is basically the same movie except with Americans, cyborgs, overt Christian metaphors, and 1000 times worse. This is the classic. Long live Riki-oh.
If you don't like this,there's something wrong with you! May 21, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Possibly the best super-hero/comedy/kung-fu/gore film ever made. One of my favorites by far, this movie is extremely enjoyable from start to finish.The goriest film next to "Dead Alive" and ten times funnier. GO BUY THIS NOW!!!
PURE ACTION INDULGENCE!! May 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the Holy Grail of action/gore movies! Sit down with a large pizza, a Coke, and a batch of brownies, and indulge in this masterpiece of violent mayhem!
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