Saturday, March 27, 2010

Riki oh: The story of Ricky

Goodness, where can one begin. Should I start with the thug that gets a wooden toy stuck in his eye, the 400 pound prisoner that gets a hole punched through his guts, the intestine strangling scene with Oscar the tattooed weightlifting knife wielding prisoner, or the supernatural steroid fella who gets his comeuppance in the industrial sized meat grinder. Riki Oh was originally a manga which later adapted to an anime series and live-action film created by Masahiko Takajo and Saruwatari Tetsuya. It is best not to read too deep into the story as it is most likely not translated correctly. The overdub itself enhances the movies hilarity with it's grunts and ohs. One may think, well I don't really go for gratuitous violence, yet there is so much cartoon violence in this masterpiece that you simply become anxious to see what bizarre homemade effect is next. The best part of all this movie review mish mosh is the fact you can youtube clips of all this fine cinema. so look at the selections it offers for this ketchup bath. Instead of just explaining the story I thought it might be most helpful to give a chronological bullet by bullet series of events. Truly the only important parts of the movie.
  • 2001: The future. Ricky arrives at the private franchised prison.
  • The innocent old man who builds a wooden toy train for his son is ambushed in the bathroom. Ricky trips the main thug onto the toy causing said toy to plunge into thugs eye.-eye blood. Splatter.
  • 400 pound prisoner Zorro is sent for revenge in showers. Ricky punches a hole through Zorro's stomach. -gutsy splatter.
  • Ricky crushes thug's fingers while he himself has a nail through his own.
  • Tattooed muscle ravaged Oscar takes a machete to the side of a snitches face. Yikes.
  • Oscar, leader of the Gang of Four, fights Ricky in the yard. begin sub bullets here.
  • Oscar blinds Ricky with glass shavings -eye blood.
  • Ricky gets arm split open -arm blood.
  • Ricky knocks Oscars eye out -more eye blood.
  • Oscar cuts own stomach open and strangles Ricky with own intestine -intestie blood.
  • Ricky clobbers Oscars skull with high tech punch.-x-ray effect.
  • Gang of four (now three) show up and big guy crushes defenseless prisoners skull. There are several youtubes of this. Seen on The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn
  • Gang of four slice mute younger brother of Oscar's lower jaw off. Jaw dropping. Then they mutilate his body. As funny as it sounds.
  • Spooky Warden shows up and pokes a prisoners eye out with his cane -eye blood.
  • Ricky tears big guy Gang of Four's jaw off. Jaw dropping part 2.
  • Ricky is beaten with a pipe and has razorblades shoved in his mouth.
  • Ricky spits razors in wardens face.
  • Ricky knocks the top of a snitches head off that ratted out his buddy.
  • Funny prison riot. A lot of fun voice overs.
  • The warden puts a prisoners arm in an over sized industrial meat grinder then feeds the arm to his kid.
  • The warden doubles in size in some paranormal trick that turns him into a muscle packing monster to fight Ricky.
  • Greatest ending ever. The warden is short work for Ricky as Ricky pushes him in the meat grinder by his head. Blood bath is an understatement.
  • Ricky punches huge hole in prison wall and walks off into the sunset.

The whole movie contains flashbacks of Ricky and his girlfriend running through meadows and giggling but since there is no eye blood in these scenes it is not worth elaborating. If you can ever get a chance to see this movie you must!
Riki Oh: The story of Ricky is surely of 5 star
Onestarcinema quality. I can watch this one over and over and over again with any set of pals or simply alone with a good libation and bowl of walnuts.

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