Description
RIKI-OH (1989-90) is a two-part Japanese anime adaptation of the manga (comic book) by Masahiko Takakumi about a superhuman young martial artist and his adventures in a near-future Japan marked by social and political breakdown. It's a violent, gore-filled, hard-action story that owes a great deal to the ROAD WARRIOR-inspired anime TV series "Fist of the North Star" and its feature film spin-off, both of which featured similar head-busting unarmed combat in a chaotic, lawless future.
Part 1 of RIKI-OH, "The Walls of Hell," focuses on the title character's stay in a corruption-ridden maximum security prison, while Part 2, "Children of Destruction" follows Riki's search for his long-lost twin brother, which leads him to a remote Japanese town dominated by a well-armed religious cult.