History Film / RikiOhTheStoryOfRicky

* {{Bishonen}}: Rogan, who is actually played by a woman in drag.

%%* FiveManBand
%%** BigBad: The Warden
%%** TheDragon: The Assistant Warden
%%** TheEvilGenius: Rogan
%%** [[TheBrute The Brutes]]: Oscar and Tarzan
%%** TheDarkChick: Brandon

For a more intricate synopsis, here's [[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/storyofricky/ I-Mockery's review.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The toughest opponent Riki fights in the prison is the warden because as everyone knows "The warden of any prison has to be the very best in kung-fu". This is a double subversion as the warden is not physically imposing and constantly takes pills for some sort of health condition. Indeed, at the beginning of their fight it appears that Ricky has easily defeated him with one kick. [[spoiler:Then the warden [[OneWingedAngel transforms into a huge monster]] and the fight is really on.]]

* AerithAndBob:

In 1991, the same year that Tsui Hark made ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'', a film that re-defined martial arts cinema as a dignified and genuinely artistic medium that portrayed kung fu as a metaphor for Chinese cultural pride, along came Lam Ngai-Kai, an obscure Grindhouse director. With the rights to a manga called ''Manga/RikiOh'' in one hand and a shoestring budget in the other, he set out to make the most faithful live action adaptation of a manga ever. 9 disastrous over budgeted months later, ''The Story Of Ricky'' was born.

->''"The alternative script for a logical Story of ''Ricky'' was [[ExcusePlot two pages long]], one of which consisted of the words "Ricky goes to prison, then decides to leave." The other was just a graphically detailed crayon drawing of a smashed brain."''

* RatedMForManly: Blood and guts are the order of the day in this movie. You won't find women here unless you count Ricky's dead girlfriend.

* SplatterHorror: Between the {{Manga}} aesthetics, the MadeOfPlasticene nature of Riki's foes, and the RefugeInAudacity nature of many of the setpieces, this film shapes up to be an unintentional splatstick masterpiece.

* {{Expy}}: Ricky of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]], although his method of doing damage is very different than his inspiration in that it involves SuperStrength rather than {{Pressure Point}}s.

* {{Expy}}: Ricky of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]].

* HeadCrushing: The movie has multiple examples, thanks to it being a {{gorn}}fest with the characters having SuperStrength and not afraid to actually use it for killing. Ricky notably defeats Oscar by smashing his skull in (intersect with an X-ray shot of his skull breaking) and later on Tarzan TheBrute [[https://i0.wp.com/projectedfigures.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/giphy-7.gif?fit=499%2C262&ssl=1 claps a random prisoner's head and mashes it like a melon]].

* KickTheDog: The Warden and the Assistant Warden rarely do anything else. The Gang of Four do their share of dog-kicking as well, even Oscar and Tarzan, who aren't all that bad compared to Rogan and Brandon, who skin Oscar's poor mute godson Alan alive when he refuses to kill Ricky. Rogan even ''literally'' kicks a dog...IN HALF.

After witnessing [[{{Squick}} a helpless old man getting his nose shaved off]] by Samuel (aka Wild Cat), Ricky decides to trip the bastard over and have [[SpecialEffectsFailure a dummy that does not look even remotely like him]] [[NightmareRetardant nail his hand to his face on a conveniently present board-with-nails.]] The next day, Samuel hires a literal horse-eating fat assassin called Zorro (or [[EmbarrassingNickname Silly Lung]]) to get Ricky in the showers. ''No, not [[PrisonRape that way]]''.

After that [[HilarityEnsues All Fucking Hell Breaks Loose.]]

Did we mention that every other prisoner, warden and guard, who is not Ricky [[MadeOfPlasticine gets popped like a balloon]] [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower with one punch by our hero]]?

An unintentional classic of comedy cinema, which proceeded to destroy the director's career, doom the leading actor to B-movie mediocrity (until a marvelous recent turn as a villain in ''Film/IpMan''), and be picked up by an American distributor to be given the most lovably hilarious dub to a Hong Kong movie ever.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: If Ricky is so strong, why doesn't he escape the prison in the first place like he did so by the end of the film? In the manga where the film is adapted from, Riki-oh only stayed in prison so he can get certain important information from the Prison Warden.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The toughest opponent Riki fights in the prison is the warden because as everyone knows "The warden of any prison has to be the very best in kung-fu".
** This is a double subversion as the warden is not physically imposing and constantly takes pills for some sort of health condition. Indeed, at the beginning of their fight it appears that Ricky has easily defeated him with one kick. [[spoiler: Then the warden [[OneWingedAngel transforms into a huge monster]] and the fight is really on.]]

* HeadCrushing: The movie has multiple examples, thanks to the film being a {{gorn}}fest with the characters having SuperStrength and not afraid to actually use it for killing. Ricky notably defeats Oscar by smashing his skull in (intersect with an X-ray shot of his skull breaking) and later on Tarzan TheBrute [[https://i0.wp.com/projectedfigures.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/giphy-7.gif?fit=499%2C262&ssl=1 claps a random prisoner's head and mashes it like a melon]].

%%* BigBad: The Warden.

In 1991, the same year that Tsui Hark made ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'', a film that re-defined Martial Arts cinema as a dignified and genuinely artistic medium that portrayed Kung Fu as a metaphor for Chinese cultural pride, along came Lam Ngai-Kai, an obscure Grindhouse director. With the rights to a manga called ''Manga/RikiOh'' in one hand and a shoestring budget in the other, he set out to make the most faithful live action adaptation of a manga ever. 9 disastrous over budgeted months later, ''The Story Of Ricky'' was born.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Rogan. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukari_Oshima Being played by a woman doesn't help.]]
** In all fairness, Creator/YukariOshima '''is''' generally typecast as overly tough DarkActionGirl throughout her career.
* {{Angrish}}: Some of the dialogue in the later fights, especially in the American Dub, devolve into little more than growling, groaning and snarling.

* BigBad: The Warden.

* BloodKnight: Tarzan, who saves Ricky from Rogan because he doesn't want him dead before they have a chance to fight.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Ricky is pretty strong. Like ''punching through concrete'' strong.

* FiveManBand
** BigBad: The Warden
** TheDragon: The Assistant Warden
** TheEvilGenius: Rogan
** [[TheBrute The Brutes]]: Oscar and Tarzan
** TheDarkChick: Brandon

* PetTheDog: [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes His love for his son]] is the Warden's only redeeming quality.

* RefugeInAudacity: The ''entire film.'' This is probably the only film in history where a man tries to strangle another man with ''[[BloodyHilarious intestines.]]'' And we don't mean "killing a man and then using his intestines to strangle another man", we mean "a man pulling out '''his own''' intestines and then trying to strangle an opponent with them."

* RuleOfCool: What the movie tries to achieve with all it gory special effects and hammy acting.

* [[StupidSexyFlanders Stupid Sexy Rogan]]: Justified by the fact that he's actually a real woman clearly playing a man.

* BloodyHilarious: It's so completely over-the-top and ridiculous that all of the {{Gorn}} ends up looping back around to funny.

After witnessing [[{{Squick}} a helpless old man getting his nose shaved off]] by Samuel (aka Wild Cat), Ricky decides to trip the bastard over and have [[SpecialEffectsFailure a dummy that does not look even remotely like him]] [[NightmareRetardant nail his hand to his face on a conveniently present board-with-nails.]] The next day, Samuel hires a literal horse eating fat assassin called Zorro (or [[EmbarrassingNickname Silly Lung]]) to get Ricky in the showers. ''No, not [[PrisonRape that way]]''.

After witnessing [[{{Squick}} a helpless old man getting his nose shaved off]] by Samuel (aka Wild Cat), Ricky decides to trip the bastard over and have [[SpecialEffectsFailure a dummy that does not look even remotely like him]] [[NightmareRetardant nail his hand to his face on a conveniently present board-with-nails.]] The next day, Samuel hires a literal horse eating fat assassin called Zorro (or [[EmbarrassingNickname Silly Lung]]) to get Ricky in the showers. ''[[BlackComedyRape No, not that way]]''.

An unintentional classic of comedy cinema, which proceeded to destroy the director's career, doom the leading actor to B-movie mediocrity until a marvelous recent turn as a villain in ''Film/IpMan'', and be picked up by an American distributor to be given the most lovably hilarious dub to a Hong Kong movie ever.