Comic-adaptation "Riki-Oh" is a guilty pleasure that doesn't give you much time to catch your breath.
It's a cult movie, thanks to its unapologetic approach to both adapting the original material to live action film, and the on-screen violence. Where others might have changed the tone, director Lam Nai-Choi ("The Seventh Curse") chose to closely mimic the original, only with actors, latex, styrofoam, and large amounts of fake blood.
"Riki-Oh" is a fast moving manga-style prison drama, with grotesque, funny, bizarre moments, and a lot of very brute, very gory violence. If you have a strong stomach, it's a highly entertaining watch.
Fun fact: Actors Fan Mei-sheng and Louis Fan Siu-wong, playing the master of the prison and Riki-Oh, respectively, are father and son in real life.
video source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlRfZ8-pgGY
Alin Sun
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki-Oh:_The_Story_of_Ricky
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