Continuity mistake: In the final fight scene, there is a moment where Ricky punches straight through the warden's stomach and punches out through the other side. The shot then cuts to the warden for a second, but when the shot cuts again, Ricky's arm has suddenly been completely removed from the warden's stomach. No way could Ricky have removed his entire arm from the warden's stomach that quickly. (01:27:33)
Casual Person
13th Oct 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
13th Oct 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: Just after the warden has one of the guard take his son away, he and Ricky prepare to fight. At this point, Ricky has no blood shown around his mouth. But later in the scene, when the warden becomes muscular, there is suddenly some blood around his mouth that wasn't there earlier. (01:26:20 - 01:27:14)
13th Oct 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the warden begins changing into a more muscular version of himself, in one shot, he is shown with his head pointed downwards and with his eyes closed, but in the next shot, he is suddenly standing upright, with his eyes open. (01:26:37)
13th Oct 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the warden is kicked across the kitchen by Ricky, in the shot where he lands on a sink, there are two circular smudge marks on the wall beside him. It then cuts to a closer shot of the warden and the two smudge marks have gone. (01:26:31)
13th Oct 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the warden is preparing to fight Ricky, he takes his belt off and drops it on the tray of meat on the table in front of him. The warden then pushes the table towards Ricky and the belt is now positioned to be beside the meat tray. Ricky then kicks the warden across the room and the belt is now suddenly nearer to the other end of the table. (01:26:28)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: Just after the warden has chopped off the inmate's hand by forcing it into the meat grinder, the inmate falls over and some of the blood coming out of his arm splatters on the wall beside him. Two other inmates walk up to him to help him up, and now there is suddenly much more blood on the wall. The blood also changes appearance, being splattered on the wall in one shot, then being smeared on the wall in the next shot. (01:22:16)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the assistant warden begins to inflate after getting shot by the warden, Ricky and a group of other inmates begin to back away from him and are shown standing in the background. But in the shot of the assistant warden exploding, Ricky and the other inmates have suddenly disappeared. (01:23:15)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the warden begins forcing the inmate's hand into the meat grinder, in the first shot, we can see that his body is placed over a cloth, placed over the side. When the shot cuts, the cloth has suddenly moved much further to the right and away from the man. (01:22:03)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the inmates are cornering the assistant warden, he begins to walk down the stairs in a wide shot, with his left arm lowered. In the next shot, he is suddenly waving his left arm in the air. (01:20:10)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the armoured guards appear, a guard holding a mace attempts to swing it at Ricky whilst he jumps from a staircase. In the shot of Ricky jumping down from the staircase, he is holding his shield so that it is positioned away from him, but in the next shot, the guard suddenly has his protective shield directly in front of him. (01:20:49)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the assistant warden falls down the stairs whilst being confronted by the inmates, in one shot his body is rotated towards the left and is face to face with some inmates nearest to the staircase. When the camera changes angles, his body is more rotated to the right and is now directly facing the staircase bannister to be face to face with more of the inmates. (01:20:16)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the assistant warden starts searching Ricky's cell, he opens the two doors to the toilet stall to see if he is in there. Whilst Ricky jumps down from the ceiling, the assistant warden has the left door on the toilet stall held open and the right door on the toilet stall closed. When he notices Ricky in the next shot, the left door on the toilet stall is now closed and the right door on the toilet stall is now wide open. (01:19:09)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the assistant warden and the bald inmate are walking down the corridor towards the end, two inmates from inside their cells put their hands on the bars of the cell doors to see what is happening. The inmate standing on the left has both of his hands on the bars and the inmate standing on the right has both hands on the row of bars positioned below where the inmate standing on the left has his hands. When the camera changes angles, the inmate standing on the left no longer has his hands on the bars and the inmate standing on the right now has his hands positioned on two separate rows of bars. (01:18:30)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When Ricky is being tortured by the warden, after the warden removes the tape covering his mouth, Ricky spits out some blood as many of the razors inside his mouth. The razors that were shown sticking out of his cheeks are not shown moving, but after it cuts to the warden with some of the razors stuck to his face, the shot cuts back to Ricky and the razors in his cheeks are no longer there. Even the ones that weren't shown being spat out. (01:16:40)
25th Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: Wong Chun stuffs a load of razors in Ricky's mouth and begins hitting him. After the warden asks Ricky a question and Wong Chun stops hitting him for a moment, we can see that Ricky's left cheek looks fine (aside from the blood running down his head). In the next shot, the razors are suddenly sticking out of his cheeks that were not there in the previous shot. (01:16:27)
23rd Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When Ricky's girlfriend jumps off the roof, her body is positioned so that her legs are facing towards the building, but when she falls to the ground in the next shot, her body is suddenly facing the opposite direction, as we can see her legs are facing away from the building. (01:11:27)
23rd Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When Ricky punches the drug lord in the side of the head, whilst the drug lord begins to fall over after Ricky punches him, there are no visible injuries shown on his head. When the drug lord is shown on the ground in the next shot, there is a huge wound and lots of blood on the side of his head that would have been visible in the previous shot. (01:12:25)
23rd Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When Ricky retaliates after Tarzan tries to squeeze his head through the jail cell bars, there is some blood shown on his face. A couple seconds later, just after he punches Tarzan's arm, there is drastically much more blood on his face. (01:02:10)
23rd Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the warden's son begins walking down the red carpet and trips up, the shadows of the prison guards can be seen cast on the carpet. When the assistant warden goes to help him up a few seconds later, the shadows of the guards have disappeared from the carpet. (00:56:58)
23rd Sep 2020
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Continuity mistake: When the warden's car pulls over at the prison, the car stops where the back right hand side tyre is positioned a foot or two away from the red carpet. In a close-up shot of the warden getting out, the car is suddenly much closer to the red carpet. (00:56:17)
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