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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Cast
Fan Siu-Wong, Gloria Yip, Yukari Ôshima, Frankie Chin View AllCrew
Lam Nai-Choi (Screenplay), Lam Nai-Choi (Director) View All
Release: Oct. 5th, 1991
Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes
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The story of Ricky
This is one of my fav's and has got to be the 3rd most bloody movie
in the history of film making only in back of Bad Taste and Dead Alive.The
movie is about a man named Ricky is sent to prison for ...
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Ricky Gervais
If you haven't seen his movies yet i suggest you watch them, they are actually really funny. I didn't actually know who he was and i watched 2 of the movies hes starred in and actually liked them. And...
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Ricky Gervais Fame
He's giving it to everyone! lol!
Cancer people, autism people, overweight people....I'm cracking up at the moment!...
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After Life (Netflix, Ricky Gervais series)
I absolutely loved this! I'm a big fan of Ricky's anyway, but having lost my Mum last month I thought I'd give this a go. I wouldn't say it's his best work, but it was really touching in places. ...
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Part Shawshank Redemption and part Mortal Kombat - which this movie inspired - the titular character is a man whose strength makes him impossible to detain since he can pull chains apart and whose punches shred human flesh to hilariously gory effect.

See the film if any of this interests you, don't see it if you are seriously disturbed. But if you do watch it, watch it with a bunch of friends, it makes the comedy so much better..

While a standard martial-arts film would use that story as a launching pad for all sorts of elaborately crafted fights, the violence that characterises Story of Ricky is as deliberate an inversion of the genre's usual fare as possible.