Media Blasters’ Tokyo Shock division will release RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY on Blu-ray on September 27. Artwork and specs have yet to be revealed, but anyone who has witnessed the insanity that is movie will be excited to see the over-the-top bloodbath in high definition.
Media Blasters have admitted their follies with the ICHI THE KILLER Blu-ray and promise improvement this time around. The 1991 Cantonese cult classic is written and directed by Ngai Kai Lam, as based on the manga by Tetsuya Saruwatari. Siu-Wong Fan stars.
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 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!
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