RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY (1991)

Apr 26
Sat 10:30pm only!
All Seats $10
Dir. Lam Nai-choi - 1991 - 91m - Hong Kong - In Cantonese with English subtitles - Not Valid for Punch Cards
AN ANDROIDVISION PSYCHOTRONIC CINEMA THROW DOWN!
The ultimate Hong Kong black-comic gorefest, this live-action adaptation of the cult manga is a blood feast of entrail-wreathed splatter and literally eye-popping ultraviolence. After he’s sentenced to a corrupt private prison for taking revenge on the shadowy gangsters who killed his girlfriend, the seemingly indestructible Ricky Ho (Fan Siu-wong) must fight his way out past a litany of enemies and unsavory figures using his superhuman ability to punch through any object (including the human body). Channeling the kinetic, hyperstylized spirit of the manga source material, writer-director Lam Nai-choi delivers a blast of pure cinema so outrageously over the top it’s nearly avant-garde.
"If you can handle the torrent of grisly violence, you'll find yourself royally entertained by this Hong Kong actioner." - J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
"A rather astonishing, starkly stylized blood flood set inside a privatized prison." - Michael Atkinson, Village Voice