''Virgins of the Seven Seas'' (original title: ''Yang Chi'', also known as ''Enter The 7 Virgins'' and ''The Bod Squad'') is a 1974

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directed by

Kuei Chih-Hung Kuei Chih-Hung (桂治洪, aka Kwei Chi Hung, Gui Zhi-Hong, Gwai Chi-hung) (20 December 1937 – 1 October 1999) was a filmmaker who worked for the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studios, directing more than 40 films throughout the late 1960s, 19 ...

and

Ernst Hofbauer Ernst Hofbauer (22 August 1925 – 24 February 1984) was an Austrian film director. Biography Hofbauer was born on 22 August 1925 in Vienna, Austria. He began his career as an assistant director in 1950 with ''Der keusche Adam''. His first film a ...

and starring

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and

Sonja Jeannine Sonja Jeannine is a retired Austrian stage and film actress. Career Jeannine started her career with the ensemble Löwinger-Bühne and later passed to cinema, especially acting in sex report films directed by Ernst Hofbauer, such as three ''Schu ...

. The

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version titled ''Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen'' saw theatrical release on 15 August 1974 and was released on

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in August 2010.

Theme

''Virgins of the Seven Seas'' features a great amount of gratuitous nudity and its title cast is composed of sexploitation film actresses of the period, two of them,

and Deborah Ralls, from

sex report film Sex report films (German: ''Report-Filme'') were pseudo-documentaries that had sexual life as their subject matter. Effectively sexploitation films, the genre was particularly popular in the early 1970s Europe. Background Mostly a German (or Germa ...

s of Hofbauer. The German film encyclopaedia ''Lexikon des internationalen Films'' describes the film as " Schoolgirls goes Hong Kong: Wild mix of cheap Asian pirate-

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s and the German sex posse."

Plot

A ship sailing in the pre- First Opium War

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is attacked by pirates and five

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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 (

), begins to secretly instruct the girls in

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. Meanwhile, a romantic liaison between Pao and one of the girls, Dawn (

) emerges.

Cast

- Ko Pao *Hui-Ling Liu - Ko Mei-Mei *

- Dawn *Tamara Elliot - Karin *Diane Drube - Anna *Deborah Ralls - Celia *Gillian Bray - Brenda *Hsieh Wang - Chao *Helen Ko - Tao Fu

Home Video

The German version titled ''Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen'' was released on DVD by the label Camera Obscura in August 2010 and on limited edition Blu-ray by the label FilmArt on May 6, 2022.

References

External links

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