This is the story — well, movie tale — of Cheung Po Tsai, the pirate legend who eventually became a Qing dynasty Navy captain, helping other governments to battle pirates. That’s plenty to do in just 39 years, but the guy lived a life.

Played by Ti Lung in this Chang Cheh-directed movie, it seems like everyone is out to collect the bounty on his head, like former shipmate Hua Er-dao (Fan Mei-sheng),  merchant Xiang You-lin (Tin Ching) and General Wu Yee (David Chiang), who grows to respect the rogue. This would be the eighteenth movie that Ti Lung and David Chiang made as a team!

This is less a piracy film — yes, there’s a swashbuckling scene to start it — and more a chronicle of two good men destined to battle one another. And if Cheung Po Tsai is a familiar name to you, you may remember when he was the villain of Project A.

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.