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: Ricky Ho (played by Louis Fan), a martial artist with superhuman strength trained in

: Ricky is sentenced to a maximum-security prison for the manslaughter of a crime boss responsible for his girlfriend's death.

Services like Arrow Video or Shudder frequently host restored versions of classic Asian horror and action films.

Forget everything you know about martial arts films. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991), directed by Lam Nai-choi and based on the manga by Masahiko Takajo, is not a "good" movie in any traditional sense. It is, however, an unforgettable one. This is the cinematic equivalent of a hyperactive 12-year-old shredding a comic book, snorting sugar, and screaming the rules of a fighting game. It is a masterpiece of glorious, gory, laugh-out-loud insanity.