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Genre:
Splatter Madness Made in Hong Kong
Country, Year:
Hong Kong, 1991
Duration:
91 minutes
Director:
Ngai Choi Lam
Writer:
Ngai Choi Lam, Tetsuya Saruwatari, Masahiko Takajo
Language/Subtitles:
German/None
Cast:
Siu-Wong Fan, Mei Sheng Fan, Ka-Kui Ho
DoP:
Hoi-Man Mak
Editor:
Peter Cheung, Chuen-Tak Keung, Christian Alexander Moran
Music:
Fei-Lit Chan
Submitted by:
Star China
screenings
29.4.23 0:45
Excelsior

Don't mess with Riki-Oh!

Story of Ricky

Watch out old-school splatter maniacs: STORY OF RICKY (1991) is back! Or to quote the colleagues from Media Blaster: “The Greatest Hong Kong Martial Arts Action Revenge Gore-Soaked Prison Breakout Love Story Cult Film of 1991 Ever Put on DVD” — big screen in our case.

About the story: Riki-Oh goes to jail. Innocent, of course. There, he is immediately treated pretty badly by everyone. Since the prisons were privatized, they are all corrupt anyway and the inmates are all cartoonically mean villains. Thankfully, Riki has mastered qigong. And that's really good.

Story of Ricky is one of those wonderful Cat III movies that splatter fans simply must see. In Germany, the seizure and indexing of the manga film was only lifted at the end of 2022. We are showing the film dubbed in German. Simply because we always saw him that way before.

Confiscated, passed on bad VHS copies for years and now finally in the cinema in the finest HD quality. That's exactly what you go to film festivals for!

Michel Frutig | Festival Director