Legendary Gore-Fu Flick THE STORY OF RICKY (RIKI-OH) Remastered!

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1. Simon Abrams 07/21/2008 @ 2:04pm

   Just pre-ordered it. Wonder how I will react to seeing a competent version of it instead of the notorious, hilariously butchered dubbed cut everyone seems to know.

2. studboi69 07/21/2008 @ 2:29pm

   But the dubbed version was part of the “charm” of the flick! After all, who could come up with lines like “Alright! You gotta a lotta guts, Oscar!” after seeing someone disemboweling himself???

3. Simon Abrams 07/21/2008 @ 3:44pm

   Yeah, my buddy Bill would probably agree with you.

   I don’t necessarily disagree….perhaps there is an English dub track? Oh. There isn’t.

   Well…um….I bought it. So yeah.

4. zombeaner 07/21/2008 @ 4:20pm

   Well I have the Hong Kong Legends disc of this, and I know it is in the pipeline for Dragon Dynasty, so I think I’ll wait for the DD disc…

5. kungfueurotrash 07/21/2008 @ 8:18pm

   Ditto: preorder as well….

6. Rhythm-X 07/21/2008 @ 9:14pm

   There’s a hilariously butchered version of this?  I thought the US disc was a port of the Megastar disc from Hong Kong?  Were either of them cut?

7. quadshock 07/22/2008 @ 1:28am

   NEver seen it but that looks hilarious

8. misteresh 07/22/2008 @ 4:32am

   Nothing can beat this film. But without the shoddy English dub? I don’t know, it just seems wrong. This is probably the only film that the English dub actually makes it better?

9. dullboy 07/22/2008 @ 7:41am

   That UK HKLegends disc was just fine and included both the English dub and Cantonese tracks.

10. MikeOutWest 07/22/2008 @ 1:41pm

    I remember showing this movie to some friends of mine during a boozy night a long time ago (back in the age of video, when the only way to get hold of such movies was at movie fairs). There’s a scene at the beginning that takes place in the showers, where one of the toughs is bullying an inmate who’d built a toy wooden train. After smashing the toy on the floor, he uses a wood-plane to sheer off the top of the poor guys’s nose (everyone’s thinking, ouch that’s a bit rough). Then Ricky comes in and trips the bully so he lands face first on the nails sticking up out of the broken toy. Everyone was pissing themselves laughing. I hadn’t intended to show the whole flick, only that scene, but everyone insisted on watching it. Of course, even more outrageous stuff was to follow…

    A truly inspired slice of insanity, which also features Yukari Oshima as a transvestite!

11. kidlazarus 07/22/2008 @ 10:37pm

    LOVE this movie… it’s a shame it didn’t meet success upon its original release as the manga it’s based on has even more mayhem to offer. I believe the manga’s first arc was a 12 book run…at least that’s what I have. The film is only 2 books and an additional chapter of Masahiko Takajo and Tetsuya Sauwatari’s run. Gotta love how much Fan Siu-Wong resembles the illustrated character. He’s great in _stone-age warriors_, too.

12. VendavalEste 03/22/2009 @ 8:38am

    Old news or not, oh man I need to find this DVD; is it a Chinese or Japanese release?

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