Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is absolutely insane. I can not, in one mere paragraph, explain to you the violent insanity contained within these 90 minutes of Chinese jail movie magic. Shot in 1991 and based on a Japanese manga, the movie is set in the distant future of 2001, in which all prisons have become privately owned companies, allowing for rampant corruption in the penal system. Riki-Oh is sentenced to a prison run by a crooked warden and his assistant warden and four prisoners known as the Gang of Four, who exert control over the prison through violence, but they soon find out that Riki-Oh is no average prisoner. Loaded with some of the craziest fights and over-the-top grossly violent imagery that quickly and frequently extends into the world of the cartoonish, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is a genre classic, a cult favorite, and surprisingly well loved by the critical community. So make sure you aren't eating anything and check out this supremely screwed up movie.
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