Hong Kong 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.
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.
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 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.
- pirate · 20
- brothel · 17
- training · 11
- kung fu · 121
- kidnapping · 72
Reception Benchmarks
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 Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Hong Kong, Germany |
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Spoken Languages | Mandarin, German |
| Production Companies | Shaw Brothers |
| Runtime | 1h 39m |
| Release Date | June 21, 1974 |
| IMDb | tt0071712 |