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Virgins of the Seven Seas
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Wikipedia article
'Virgins of the Seven Seas' (original title: 'Yang Chi', also known as 'Enter The 7 Virgins' and 'The Bod Squad') is a 1974 Hong Kong-West German martial arts-comedy film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung and Ernst Hofbauer and starring Elliot Ngok and Sonja Jeannine. The German version titled 'Karate, Ksse, blonde Katzen' saw theatrical release on 15 August 1974 and was released on DVD in August 2010.[http://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=Fassung&ID=11720 Karate, Ksse, blonde Katzen]
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, Sonja Jeannine and Deborah Ralls, from sex report films of Hofbauer. The German film encyclopaedia 'Lexikon des internationalen Films' describes the film as "Schoolgirls goes Hong Kong: Wild mix of cheap Asian pirate-kung fu films and the German sex posse."[http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?wert=40731&sucheNach=titel 'Karate, Ksse, blonde Katzen' - Lexikon des internationalen Films]
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), starting to get trained in sexual techniques for the day when they shall be auctioned. However, one of the attendants, Ko Mei-mei (Lau Wai-Ling) takes pity at the girls' fate and, with her brother Ko Pao (Elliot Ngok credited as 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
*Elliot Ngok: Ko Pao
*Lau Wai-Ling (Liu Hui-ling): Ko Mei-mei
*Hsieh Wang: Chao
*Sonja Jeannine: Dawn
*Gillian Bray: Brenda
*Diane Drube: Anna
*Tamara Elliot: Karen
*Deborah Ralls: Celia
Home Video
The German version titled Karate, Ksse, 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
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