Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.
Our read · Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal category-iii · action · gore entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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