Also known as Hellfighters of the East and its VHS-era name Strike 4 Revenge, this Chang Cheh film is odd for the director, his stars David Chiang and Ti Lung, and the Shaw Brothers. It’s shot overseas in Seoul and isn’t a historical epic. It’s as close to modern day as it gets, nearly, being set in 1953.

Sergeant Feng-xia (Ti Lung) and Private Gao Yin-Han (Wang Chung) are sick of military service and go AWOL, meeting up with another soldier who has run, Jin-yi (David Chiang), and Li Wei-Shi (Chen Kuan-tai). They run into a Yakuza operation led by Yasuaki Kurata.

As this is a Chang Cheh movie, you can expect that nothing ends happily but at least there are plenty of fights and good triumphing over evil — somewhat. There’s also an awesome war bar called Hello John and a final battle inside a gym that finds so many pieces of sports equipment used to destroy human beings.

All four films on the Horrible History box set from Eureka are presented on Blu-ray from HD masters supplied by Celestial Pictures. Extras include two new commentaries by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and martial artist and filmmaker Michael Worth, two new commentaries by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema, interviews and essays on these films, an O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré with a collector’s booklet featuring new writing on all four films in this set by writer and critic James Oliver. It’s all limited to 2,000 copies and you can get it from MVD.