Story of Ricky

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Movie
German title Story of Ricky
Original title Lik Wong
Country of production Hong Kong
original language Cantonese
Publishing year 1991
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked, confiscated nationwide
Rod
Director Lam Ngai Kai
script Lam Ngai Kai
production Chan Dung Chow
music Fei Lit Chan
camera Hoi-man Mak
cut Yiu Chung Cheng ,
Chuen Dak Geung
occupation

Story of Ricky ( Chinese  力 王 , Pinyin Lì Wáng , Cantonese  Lik Wong ), also Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is a dystopian action film with splatter and martial arts elements by director Lam Ngai Kai from 1991. Based on the manga Riki-Oh ( 力 王 , Riki-Ō ) by lyricist Masahiko Takajo and illustrator Saruwatari Tetsuya . It is the first real film adaptation of the material, although two Japanese anime adaptations were made in 1989 and 1990 respectively .

The manga film was one of the first films in Hong Kong to be given Category III rating outside of the porn industry, which corresponds to a strict youth ban. This classification had a significant impact on the commercial evaluation, so that only income of HKD 2.148 million (equivalent to around EUR 196,000) could be achieved in the crown colony.

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In the near future, the year 2001, all state institutions will be privatized in view of the global over-indebtedness of public budgets. Even the prisons are degenerating into objects of commercial speculation. The penal institutions are often run by corrupt businessmen who abuse the detainees as cheap labor.

The 21-year-old Qigong master student Ricky Ho (name was Anglicised for the international dubbing) is facing a ten-year prison sentence in an Asian maximum security prison, where violence and anarchy are the order of the day, for taking revenge on a drug dealer who committed the suicide of his girlfriend. The gifted fighter actually only wants to serve his time, but shortly after his arrival the justice fanatic has to give up his chosen passivity and be tortured as fellow prisoners. With his bare hands he stands in the way of a group of violent inmates who are suppressing their comrades. So he inevitably comes into the focus of the four superintendents who rule the prison and are only subordinate to the director and his representative.

Pushed to the extreme, Ricky decides to take action against the ubiquitous terror. At a different time he discovers that the western part of the detention center is a growing area for opium poppies for the production of opium . However, before he can face the prison administration, he gets rid of the three remaining supervisors. In the meantime, he has been tortured several times. Meanwhile, the other prisoners rebel against the despotic prison director, and a riot breaks out.

At the end of the film, Ricky kills the director, who transforms into a demon-like being, after a short duel by pushing him into a meat grinder until only the head is left. Then the lone fighter knocks a huge hole in the prison walls, which from now on neither he nor his rebellious inmates can stop.

Reviews

The Lexicon of International Films wrote that the film was "an extremely violent action film."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. the overview of the film at hkcinemagic.com , accessed on August 28, 2016
  2. ^ Story of Ricky in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used