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When a British ship gets raided by Chinese pirates off the Chinese coast in the late Ming Dynasty, five Caucasian women named Dawn, Brenda, Anna, Karen and Celia are among the only survivors. Captured by pirates working for a local brothel owned by the ruthless Lord Chao, the five women faces unknown fates of being auctioned off to wealthy foreign clients. However, a kindly attendant in the brothel, Mei-mei, decides to help the five women escape by convincing her brother, Master Ko Pao (Creator/YuehHua) a swordsman and martial artist, to teach them kung fu so they may exact revenge on the pirates and slavers.

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When a British ship gets raided by Chinese pirates off the Chinese coast in the late Ming Dynasty, five Caucasian women English maidens named Dawn, Brenda, Anna, Karen and Celia are among the only survivors. Captured by pirates working for a local brothel owned by the ruthless Lord Chao, the five women faces unknown fates of being auctioned off to wealthy foreign clients. However, a kindly attendant in the brothel, Mei-mei, decides to help the five women escape by convincing her brother, Master Ko Pao (Creator/YuehHua) a swordsman and martial artist, to teach them kung fu so they may exact revenge on the pirates and slavers.
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* AmazonBrigade: The five virgins, after an extensive training under Master Ko, ends up becoming capable female ass-kickers and warriors to exact brutal revenge against Lord Chao and the pirates.
* AttemptedRape: The pirates often tries this on their captives, and the five virgins gets plenty of special attention because the all-Asian pirates considers the Caucasian women to be more "exotic".

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* AmazonBrigade: The five virgins, after an extensive training under Master Ko, ends end up becoming capable female ass-kickers and warriors to exact brutal revenge against Lord Chao and the pirates.
* AttemptedRape: The pirates often tries try this on their captives, and the five virgins gets get plenty of special attention because the all-Asian pirates considers consider the Caucasian women to be more "exotic".



* BandOfBrothels: The five girls ends up being enslaved in a brothel owned by Chao, until the righteous swordsman Ko Pao decide to secretly train them in martial arts skills until they're capable of fighting back.

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* BandOfBrothels: The five girls ends end up being enslaved in a brothel owned by Chao, until the righteous swordsman Ko Pao decide to secretly train them in martial arts skills until they're capable of fighting back.



* BigDamnHeroes: In the final battle, just as Master Ko Pao is being overwhelmed by legions and legions of pirate mooks after killing more than twenty of them, suddenly the five virgins arrive to reinforce him. Wearing nothing but vests and loinclothes or panties. Somehow it works, with the pirates being distracted and suddenly facing retaliation from the five women they spent the whole movie abusing, at which point most of them ends up getting killed en-masse.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The virgins uses this trick more than once to get the drop on their pirate captors, or to attempt an escape.
* TheDogBitesBack: The virgins spends most of the film being physically, sexually and mentally abused by the pirates who intends to sell them off. After an extensive training in martial arts, they are completely capable of fighting back against their captors, killing off several pirates in lengthy battle sequences.
* ExcusePlot: Half of the movie's runtime is dedicated to the virgins' kung fu training and fighting in the nude. The five main actresses practically spends the whole movie topless, just to cater to the specific audience who wants their kung fu films to contain as much boobs as possible.

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* BigDamnHeroes: In the final battle, just as Master Ko Pao is being overwhelmed by legions and legions of pirate mooks after killing more than twenty of them, suddenly the five virgins arrive to reinforce him.as reinforcements. Wearing nothing but vests and loinclothes or panties. Somehow it works, with the pirates being distracted and suddenly facing retaliation from the five women they spent the whole movie abusing, at which point most of them ends up getting killed en-masse.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The virgins uses use this trick more than once to get the drop on their pirate captors, or to attempt an escape.
* TheDogBitesBack: The virgins spends spend most of the film being physically, sexually and mentally abused by the pirates who intends intend to sell them off. After an extensive training in martial arts, they are completely capable of fighting back against their captors, killing off several pirates in lengthy battle sequences.
* ExcusePlot: Half of the movie's runtime is dedicated to the virgins' kung fu training and fighting in the nude. The five main actresses practically spends spend the whole movie topless, just to cater to the specific audience who wants their kung fu films to contain as much boobs as possible.



* FullFrontalAssault: Most of the virgins goes into battle in a near-nude condition.

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* FullFrontalAssault: Most of the virgins goes go into battle in a near-nude condition.



* HumanTrafficking: The main villains of the movie are human traffickers, who kidnapped the five titular characters after raiding a British ship, and intends to sell them off to foreign buyers.

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* HumanTrafficking: The main villains of the movie are human traffickers, who kidnapped the five titular characters after raiding a British ship, and intends intend to sell them off to foreign buyers.



* MasterSwordsman: Master Ko Pao, being classic Yueh Hua, who cuts down plenty of pirates in massive fight scenes. The five women ends up being capable swordswomen after going through his training regiment.

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* MasterSwordsman: Master Ko Pao, being classic Yueh Hua, who cuts down plenty of pirates in massive fight scenes. The five women ends end up being capable swordswomen after going through his training regiment.
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* RuthlessModernPirates: A ship sailing in the pre-First Opium War South China Sea is attacked by pirates and five British maidens on board are kidnapped.
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[[caption-width-right:350:“When I see your titties shiver my trousers start to dither.” -- '''actual''' dialogue from the English dub.]]

--> "Schoolgirls goes Hong Kong: Wild mix of cheap Asian pirate-kung fu films and the German sex posse."
---> Excerpt from ''Lexikon des internationalen Films'' review

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[[caption-width-right:350:“When [[caption-width-right:350:"When I see your titties shiver my trousers start to dither." -- '''actual''' dialogue from the English dub.]]

--> "Schoolgirls ->''"Schoolgirls goes Hong Kong: Wild mix of cheap Asian pirate-kung fu films and the German sex posse."
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Excerpt from ''Lexikon des internationalen Films'' review
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* ExcusePlot: Half of the movie's runtime is dedicated to the virgins' kung fu training and fighting in the nude. The five main actresses practically spends the whole movie topless, just to cater to the specific audience who wants their kung fun films to contain as much nudity as possible.

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* ExcusePlot: Half of the movie's runtime is dedicated to the virgins' kung fu training and fighting in the nude. The five main actresses practically spends the whole movie topless, just to cater to the specific audience who wants their kung fun fu films to contain as much nudity boobs as possible.

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When a British ship gets raided by Chinese pirates, off the Chinese coast in the late Ming Dynasty, five Caucasian women named Dawn, Brenda, Anna, Karen and Celia are among the only survivors. Captured alive by pirates working for a local brothel, owned by the ruthless Lord Chao, the five women faces an unknown fate of being auctioned off to wealthy foreign clients. However, a kindly attendant in the brothel, Mei-mei, decides to help the five women escape by convincing her brother, Master Ko Pao (Creator/YuehHua) a swordsman and martial artist, to teach them kung fu so they may exact revenge on the pirates and slavers.

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When a British ship gets raided by Chinese pirates, pirates off the Chinese coast in the late Ming Dynasty, five Caucasian women named Dawn, Brenda, Anna, Karen and Celia are among the only survivors. Captured alive by pirates working for a local brothel, brothel owned by the ruthless Lord Chao, the five women faces an unknown fate fates of being auctioned off to wealthy foreign clients. However, a kindly attendant in the brothel, Mei-mei, decides to help the five women escape by convincing her brother, Master Ko Pao (Creator/YuehHua) a swordsman and martial artist, to teach them kung fu so they may exact revenge on the pirates and slavers.
slavers.

Kung fu-fighting, nudity, more nudity and kung-fu-fighting-in-the-nude ensues. Tons and tons and '''tons''' of it. We mean the nudity, of course.
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--> Excerpt from ''Lexikon des internationalen Films'' review

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* ExploitationFilm: Courtesy of Shaw Brothers working with a German porn director.

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* ExploitationFilm: Courtesy of Shaw Brothers working with a German porn director.studio.



* HoneyTrap: With the five main characters being scantily-clad women, this is expected.

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* GorgeousGaijin: One of the reasons why the five main characters, being Caucasian prostitutes, are considered "more valuable" for the pirates.
* HoneyTrap: With the five main characters being scantily-clad women, this is expected.expected to happen.
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[[caption-width-right:350:“When I see your titties shiver my trousers start to dither.” -- '''actual''' dialogue from the English dub.]]

--> "Schoolgirls goes Hong Kong: Wild mix of cheap Asian pirate-kung fu films and the German sex posse."
--> Excerpt from ''Lexikon des internationalen Films'' review

''Virgins of the Seven Seas'' (original German title, ''Karate, Küsse, blonde Katzen'', also known as ''[[TheForeignSubtitle The Bod Squad]]'' and ''[[NonIndicativeTitle Enter The 7 Virgins]]'') is a 1974 Martial arts-slash-ExploitationFilm, co-produced between Germany and Hong Kong, where Hong Kong's prestigious Creator/ShawBrothers studios get to collaborate with an Austrian porn director to make what is probably the Shaws' only foray into sexploitation martial arts. (Yes, for real!)

When a British ship gets raided by Chinese pirates, off the Chinese coast in the late Ming Dynasty, five Caucasian women named Dawn, Brenda, Anna, Karen and Celia are among the only survivors. Captured alive by pirates working for a local brothel, owned by the ruthless Lord Chao, the five women faces an unknown fate of being auctioned off to wealthy foreign clients. However, a kindly attendant in the brothel, Mei-mei, decides to help the five women escape by convincing her brother, Master Ko Pao (Creator/YuehHua) a swordsman and martial artist, to teach them kung fu so they may exact revenge on the pirates and slavers.

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!!''Virgins of the Seven Seas'' contains examples of:

* AmazonBrigade: The five virgins, after an extensive training under Master Ko, ends up becoming capable female ass-kickers and warriors to exact brutal revenge against Lord Chao and the pirates.
* AttemptedRape: The pirates often tries this on their captives, and the five virgins gets plenty of special attention because the all-Asian pirates considers the Caucasian women to be more "exotic".
* BadassTeacher: Master Ko Pao, who teaches the five girls his skills in martial arts in secret so they may exact revenge against their pirate captors.
* BandOfBrothels: The five girls ends up being enslaved in a brothel owned by Chao, until the righteous swordsman Ko Pao decide to secretly train them in martial arts skills until they're capable of fighting back.
* BigBad: Chao is the cruel and ruthless owner of a brothel who is working with a band of pirates specializing in kidnapping young women - preferably virgins - to be auctioned off in his brothel.
* BigDamnHeroes: In the final battle, just as Master Ko Pao is being overwhelmed by legions and legions of pirate mooks after killing more than twenty of them, suddenly the five virgins arrive to reinforce him. Wearing nothing but vests and loinclothes or panties. Somehow it works, with the pirates being distracted and suddenly facing retaliation from the five women they spent the whole movie abusing, at which point most of them ends up getting killed en-masse.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The virgins uses this trick more than once to get the drop on their pirate captors, or to attempt an escape.
* TheDogBitesBack: The virgins spends most of the film being physically, sexually and mentally abused by the pirates who intends to sell them off. After an extensive training in martial arts, they are completely capable of fighting back against their captors, killing off several pirates in lengthy battle sequences.
* ExcusePlot: Half of the movie's runtime is dedicated to the virgins' kung fu training and fighting in the nude. The five main actresses practically spends the whole movie topless, just to cater to the specific audience who wants their kung fun films to contain as much nudity as possible.
* ExploitationFilm: Courtesy of Shaw Brothers working with a German porn director.
* FullFrontalAssault: Most of the virgins goes into battle in a near-nude condition.
* GenreMashup: An exploitation drama-slash-kung fu {{Wuxia}} movie. Yeah, it happened.
* HoneyTrap: With the five main characters being scantily-clad women, this is expected.
* HumanTrafficking: The main villains of the movie are human traffickers, who kidnapped the five titular characters after raiding a British ship, and intends to sell them off to foreign buyers.
* NonIndicativeTitle: One of the foreign subtitles of the film is ''Enter The 7 Virgins''. There are only five of them.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Implied between Master Ko Pao and Dawn, the leader of the virgins.
* TrainingMontage: For the five virgins, under Master Ko Pao. For ''some'' reason, they're training nearly in the nude.
* TookALevelInBadass: The five virgins after being trained in martial arts, where they started fighting back.
* MasterSwordsman: Master Ko Pao, being classic Yueh Hua, who cuts down plenty of pirates in massive fight scenes. The five women ends up being capable swordswomen after going through his training regiment.
* MsFanservice: The five virgins. All of them.
* ShotInTheAss: An attempted rapist trying to force himself on Dawn ends up having Dawn spitting an olive seed into his buttocks, which hurts him. Somehow.
* SuperSpit: After an extensive training in martial arts, the five girls somehow managed to learn to spit olive seeds with precision, each seed hitting with enough force to make a grown man wince.
* VaporWear: The five virgins' battle outfit consists of a skimpy, sleeveless and backless vest, and panties or loinclothes. It's never explained.
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