This is also known as Four Assassins, as the story is about a failed assassination attempt on the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, who sends Marco Polo (Richard Harrison) to kill them! What wild revisionist history!

Directed by Chang Cheh, this has Li Xiong-Feng (Sheng Fu), Zhou Xing-Zheng (Kuan-Chun Chi), Huang Zong-Han (Yen-Tsan Tang) and Zu Jianmin (Carter Wong) battling against the Mongols. Once he infiltrates them, Polo learns that they’re on the side of good and that he’s been fooled. So have you! None of this really happened!

This is the kind of martial arts movie where dudes can throw boulders and collapse buildings on people because their fighting spirit is so strong. But hey — Marco Polo also has personal bodyguards in Gordon Liu, Leung Kar-Yan and Johnny Wang Lung-Wei, so he knows what he’s doing.

It’s also a movie that isn’t afraid to just steal the music from Daimajin, either.

If you’re new to Chang Cheh, prepare to see good looking men fight overwhelming odds, often dying, but not before exposing their bare chests to the audience.

Richard Harrison had a wild career. Before he became endlessly recycled in a series of Godfrey Ho movies, he started in Kronos before acting in more than 130 roles, which include South Pacific, Master of the World, plenty of peplum, some Eurospy, some Italian Westerns, poliziotteschi, even showing up in Joe D’Amato’s Orgasmo Nero opposite Nieves Navarro and Mark Shannon. He also directed four movies: Terror Force Commando (with Gordon Mitchell!), Challenge of the Tiger, Acquasanta Joe and Jesse & Lester – Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity, which has Harrison and Donald O’Brien as ripoff versions of Trinity and Bambino. But most of all, to me he will always be the ninja that uses a Garfield phone.

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.