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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

★★★ — Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is a Hong Kong Category III (the territory's adults-only rating) action film adapted from the manga series by Tetsuya Saruwatari, directed by Lam Nai-Choi, whose previous work included the equally outrageous The Seventh Curse (1986). Shot in the early 1990s as Hong Kong's Category III market was booming, the film leaned hard into practical gore effects at a time when the territory's studios were producing some of the most uncompromising genre cinema in the world. It marked a breakthrough role for Louis Fan Siu-Wong, who had to perform considerable physical training for the part. The film later found a sizeable cult following in Western markets after a dubbed international release made it a fixture on late-night video shelves through the mid-to-late 1990s.

It's so bad it's good. What a bad film lol. Honestly it's just one of those films that so bad it's good. The violence, the gore, the random monster thing... Punching dogs to death lol

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 1991 | Watched: 2025-04-19

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