Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky

Episode 74: Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

Theme: Guilty Pleasures
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis wrap up Guilty Pleasures Month with a movie marriage so chaotic it probably violated the Geneva Conventions: Dead Alive meets Cool Hand Luke meets Jonesy from Police Academy doing every sound effect with his mouth. The result? The Story of Ricky — a live-action anime fever dream where the plot is thin, the violence is thick, and the special effects department absolutely did not have OSHA clearance.

Join your two favorite members of the Let’s Talk About Flix-verse as they unpack:

• How Ricky is a 21-year-old martial arts prodigy who can punch through steel, concrete, and the entire legal system.

• Why every guard in this prison is either a coward, a pervert, or a man who stores mints in his fake eyeball cup.

• How the “Gang of Four” feel less like villains and more like Mega Man bosses built out of leftover Halloween costumes.

• Why Zorro’s introduction (and exit) makes The Price Is Right punch-game look like a snuff film.

• How Oscar throws powdered glass, loses an eye, guts himself, and still finds time to strangle Ricky with his own intestines.

• Why Alan — mute, sweet, half-tongued Alan — playing a leaf flute is somehow the most wholesome moment in a movie full of face-planers and exploding limbs.

• How Tarzan shows up, gets his jaw ripped off, and still manages to hold up a collapsing ceiling using raw gym-class enthusiasm.

• Why the Warden hulking out into a two-armed Goro might be the worst special effect in history… and also the best.

• How the final fight ends with Ricky tossing the Warden into a prison-grade meat grinder like he’s prepping a really illegal batch of sausage.

From the remote-control romance flashback to the x-ray skull punch, from intestine-whipping to wall-shattering freedom speeches, Oz and Curtis walk through a film that proves sometimes a movie can be so violently stupid… it becomes art.

Final Verdict

Oz — 8 Gut Punches (Literal, Through-the-Abdomen Gut Punches)
Curtis — 95 Eyeball Mints
Both — Still wondering why the prisoners didn’t follow Ricky out after he punched down an entire wall.