Yukari Oshima, Frankie Chin, Gloria Yip and Ka-Kui Ho

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, ...( read more  read more... )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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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Ngai Kai Lam

Release Date: January 1, 2002

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DVD Release Date: January 6, 2004

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  • April 13, 2009
    The Story of Ricky is so ridiculous that to begin criticizing or trying to explain it would almost be missing the point. An entirely entertaining martial arts movie, this movie is so ridiculously graphic and over the top. The dubbing is hysterical to the point where an admittedly...( read more) very androgynous woman (the one that looked like the guy from Human League) is given a man's voice. And once the Chinese Hulk shows up the brilliance and utter stupidity smash through the ceiling. So much entertaining nonsense you won't be able to stand it.
  • December 23, 2008
    Justifies the invention of cinema in every possible way. It made me feel proud of forming part of the human race.
  • April 5, 2008
    So very entertaining, so very funny (unintentionally).
  • December 12, 2007
    The greatest prison film ever, Shawshank ain't got nothing on this:



    and this:



    or this:

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    watch it on youtube:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnhLtB3n25c
  • March 14, 2007
    Best shitty movie ever
  • October 12, 2009
    Absurdly over the top violence plus hilariously ridiculous dramatization and the result is quite a fun movie
  • October 11, 2009
    One of the funniest and best films ever made. FACT!
  • October 4, 2009
    Enter the Dragon (1973) and Lock Up (1989) meet Braindead (1992)! What do you get? One of the goriest, hilarious, violent, unrealistic and outrageous films ever made, obviously. Lik Wong brings pure gory entertainment that any martial arts fan and horror fan should see. I loved t...( read more)his one.

    74/100
  • October 1, 2009
    This was one hell of a great movie!
  • August 14, 2009
    one of the most excessively violent, ridiculously gory, and super fun asian films i have ever seen. so awesome.

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