Virgins of the Seven Seas
Virgins of the Seven Seas (original title: Yang Chi, also known as Enter The 7 Virgins and The Bod Squad) is a 1974 martial arts-comedy film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung and Ernst Hofbauer and starring Yueh Hua and Sonja Jeannine. The film is a Hong Kong-West German co-production. The German version titled Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen saw theatrical release on 15 August 1974 and was released on DVD in August 2010.
Plot
A ship sailing in the pre-First Opium War South China Sea is attacked by pirates and five British maidens on board are kidnapped. They are sold to a brothel run by Chao (Hsieh Wang), where they start being trained in sexual techniques for the day when they shall be auctioned. However, one of the attendants, Ko Mei-Mei (Hui-Ling Liu) takes pity at the girls' fate and, with her brother Ko Pao (Yueh Hua), begins to secretly instruct the girls in kung fu. Meanwhile, a romantic liaison between Pao and one of the girls, Dawn (Sonja Jeannine) emerges.
Cast
More details
| author | Yi Hsun Cheng Yu-Hsun Chen |
|---|---|
| director | Ernst Hofbauer Kuei Chih-hung |
| genre | action comedy |
| keywords | attack first opium war kidnap sail south china sea |
| musicBy | Fu-Ling Wang |
| producer | Runme Shaw Wolf C. Hartwig |
| theme | action comedy kung fu martial arts |