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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (also known as Story of Ricky) is a 1991 Hong Kong martial arts-thriller film written and directed by Lam Nai-choi, and based on the Japanese manga Riki-Oh by Masahiko Takajo and Saruwatari Tetsuya. [1]

45 relations: Anglicisation, Anime, Blu-ray, Cantonese, City Hunter (film), Coup de grâce, Craig Kilborn, Film Threat, Four Heavenly Kings, Gang of Four, Gloria Yip, Heroin, Ho Ka-kui, Hong Kong Cinemagic, Hong Kong Legends, Hong Kong motion picture rating system, Hulk (comics), Lam Ngai Kai, Lam Suet, Louis Fan (actor), Mandible, Manga, Martial arts, Media Asia Entertainment Group, Netflix, Obesity, Opium, Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Peter Jackson, Privatization, Qigong, Riki-Oh, Rotten Tomatoes, Sam Raimi, Seppuku, TCM Underground, Tetsuya Saruwatari, The Daily Show, The Dragon from Russia, The Village Voice, Thriller film, Turner Classic Movies, United States, Yuen Wah, Yukari Oshima.

Anglicisation

Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.

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Anime

Anime is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Cantonese

The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.

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City Hunter (film)

City Hunter (Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 Hong Kong action comedy film written and directed by Wong Jing, starring Jackie Chan, Joey Wong, Kumiko Goto and Chingmy Yau.

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Coup de grâce

A coup de grâce (French for "blow of mercy") is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal.

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Craig Kilborn

Craig Kilborn (born August 24, 1962) is an American comedian, sports and political commentator, actor, and television host.

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Film Threat

Film Threat is an online publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film, although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters.

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Four Heavenly Kings

The Four Heavenly Kings are four Buddhist gods, each of whom watches over one cardinal direction of the world.

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Gang of Four

The Gang of Four was a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials.

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Gloria Yip

Gloria Yip Wan-Yee (born January 13, 1973 in Hong Kong, the elder of two sisters and daughter of prominent businessman Yip Shao) is a Hong Kong actress and singer, best known for her four films with director Lam Ngai Kai, and to Western audiences, her "special appearance" in Lam's Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky and principal supporting role in the cult classic Saviour of the Soul.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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Ho Ka-kui

William Ho Ka-kui (Chinese: 何家駒, March 14, 1948 – January 27, 2015) was a Hong Kong Chinese actor in the 1970s.

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Hong Kong Cinemagic

Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual (French and English) website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people who created them.

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Hong Kong Legends

Hong Kong Legends was a United Kingdom DVD distribution company, based in Hertfordshire and operating from the UK and Australia between 1999 and 2007.

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Hong Kong motion picture rating system

The Hong Kong motion picture rating system is a legal system of movie screening and rating.

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Hulk (comics)

The Hulk is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Lam Ngai Kai

Lam Ngai Kai (藍乃才), a.k.a. Nam Lai Choi, Nam Nai Choi, Simon Nam (born 1953), is a Hong Kong-based cinematographer and film director.

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Lam Suet

Lam Suet is a Hong Kong film actor.

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Louis Fan (actor)

Louis Fan (born 19 June 1973), also known as Fan or Faan Siu-wong, is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist.

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Mandible

The mandible, lower jaw or jawbone is the largest, strongest and lowest bone in the human face.

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a number of reasons: as self-defense, military and law enforcement applications, mental and spiritual development; as well as entertainment and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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Media Asia Entertainment Group

Media Asia Entertainment Group, Media Asia Group, is a Hong Kong production company and film distributor for films made in Hong Kong and throughout China.

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Netflix

Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top media services provider, headquartered in Los Gatos, California.

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Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health.

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Opium

Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).

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Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH), previously known as Golden Harvest from 1970 to 2009, is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong.

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Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Privatization

Privatization (also spelled privatisation) is the purchase of all outstanding shares of a publicly traded company by private investors, or the sale of a state-owned enterprise to private investors.

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Qigong

Qigong, qi gong, chi kung, or chi gung is a holistic system of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used in the belief that it promotes health, spirituality, and martial arts training.

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Riki-Oh

is a manga which later adapted to two OVAs and a live-action film named Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sam Raimi

Samuel M. Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American filmmaker, actor, and producer famous for creating the cult horror ''Evil Dead'' series, as well as directing the original ''Spider-Man'' trilogy (2002–07), the 1990 superhero film Darkman, and the 2013 Disney fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful.

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Seppuku

Seppuku (切腹, "cutting belly"), sometimes referred to as harakiri (腹切り, "abdomen/belly cutting", a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.

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TCM Underground

TCM Underground is a weekly late-night cult film showcase airing on Turner Classic Movies.

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Tetsuya Saruwatari

is a Japanese manga artist.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and news satire television program.

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The Dragon from Russia

Dragon from Russia is a 1990 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Clarence Fok and based on the Japanese manga Crying Freeman and written by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami, and also produced by Dean Shek, and starring Sam Hui, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Carrie Ng, Loletta Lee and guest starring Shek in his second-to-last film appearance before retiring from acting in two years later.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Thriller film

Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that involves excitement and suspense in the audience.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Yuen Wah

Yuen Wah (born 2 September 1950) is a Hong Kong action film actor, action choreographer, stuntman and martial artist who has appeared in over 160 films and over 20 television series.

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Yukari Oshima

is a Japanese actress and martial artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki-Oh:_The_Story_of_Ricky

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