The Bod Squad
1974 1h 39m movie Film Hong Kong

The Bod Squad

洋妓

“The First Kung Fu Sex Comedy!”

Synopsis

洋妓

“The First Kung Fu Sex Comedy!”

Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their escape by teaching them kung-fu. The five scantily-clad girls, using their newfound martial arts skills then fight their way to freedom.

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with The Bod Squad. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

Other Titles From Shaw Brothers

Action + Comedy in Hong Kong

150 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Action and Comedy genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Bod Squad itself).

The 1973–1975 Hong Kong Window

The Bod Squad holds position #14 of 24 Hong Kong films in the 1973–1975 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

  1. Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
    #1

    Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend

    ★ 9.0 · 1973
  2. The Golden Lotus
    #2

    The Golden Lotus

    ★ 8.0 · 1974
  3. Five Shaolin Masters
    #3

    Five Shaolin Masters

    ★ 7.5 · 1974
  4. The Man from Hong Kong
    #4

    The Man from Hong Kong

    ★ 6.9 · 1975
  5. The Flying Guillotine
    #5

    The Flying Guillotine

    ★ 6.7 · 1975
  6. The Fate of Lee Khan
    #6

    The Fate of Lee Khan

    ★ 6.6 · 1973
  7. Disciples of Shaolin
    #7

    Disciples of Shaolin

    ★ 6.6 · 1975
  8. All Men Are Brothers
    #8

    All Men Are Brothers

    ★ 6.6 · 1975

The 1970s Hong Kong Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 1970s in Hong Kong, 122 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Bod Squad premiered alongside 8 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 8 other Hong Kong films in 1974.

The 46th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).

Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).

Audience Engagement

14
Reviews
25th
Review-volume percentile
20th
Popularity percentile

14 audience reviews — more than 25% of Hong Kong films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 20th percentile among Hong Kong films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on The Bod Squad, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • pirate · 20
  • brothel · 17
  • training · 11
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • kung fu · 121
  • kidnapping · 72

Reception Benchmarks

6.1
TMDB Rating
14
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #532 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (36th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Among Hong Kong Action productions specifically: #352 of 516 (top 68%).

Production Details

Primary CountryHong Kong
All Production CountriesHong Kong, Germany
Original LanguageChinese
Spoken LanguagesMandarin, German
Production CompaniesShaw Brothers
Runtime1h 39m
Release DateJune 21, 1974
IMDbtt0071712