apparently this film directly references a ton of other movies...

I love looking at the connections section for movies because users always add the most random crap to the list. I think the films listed under "references" are supposed to be films that the movie directly quotes or spoofs or is clearly paying homage to but users will add any old movie to list no matter how much of a stretch the connection they see between the two films is. If there's a love interest in a movie, some joker will think "hey, there was this older movie where there was also a love interest" and then hop on imdb and add the movie to the connections section. Sometimes people will add a line or two about how the movie connects to another movie, but most of the time it is just a random collection of films that have nothing to do with the movie.

Rick-Oh is a perfect example of this. If anybody could explain in precise detail how Riki-Oh directly references all of the film listed below, it would really clear up a ton of questions in my mind. For some reason, I doubt the guy who wrote and directed this movie had all of these films in mind while making Riki-Oh. Also, apparently the director had in mind a film that came out the very same year as this film. Riki-Oh also apparently directly references A Fish Called Wanda Really??? I'll have to re-watch both films because apparently I missed something...


The Ten Commandments (1956)
Psycho (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
"The Incredible Hulk" (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- When the warden of the prison first appears, he looks just like Toht from this film.
The Evil Dead (1981)
Death Wish II (1982)
- Ricky's girlfriend, about to get raped, jumps to her death rather than eduring it.
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
The Thing (1982)
Videodrome (1983)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
"Hokuto no Ken" (1984)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Aliens (1986)
The Fly (1986)
Innerspace (1987)
Prison on Fire (1987)
The Running Man (1987)
Opera (1987)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Licence to Kill (1989)
Total Recall (1990)
Prison on Fire II (1991)