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The Vixens of Kung Fu

1975 film by Bill Milling

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ83808946 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Vixens of Kung Fu (A Tale of Yin Yang) is a 1975 American pornographic martial arts exploitation film produced and directed by Bill Milling, under the pseudonym Chiang. It stars Bree Anthony, Tony Richards, Peonies Jong, and C. J. Laing, and follows a prostitute who is gang raped, and who seeks revenge against her rapists after being trained in kung fu with a clan of other women by a martial artist. The film received an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.

Cast

Bree Anthony as Prostitute (credited as Brie Anthony)

Tony Richards as Monk (as Tony Blue)

Peonies Jong as Ha Tien Sau (as Peonies Jung)

C. J. Laing as Kung Fu Teacher

Jamie Gillis as Hunter

Bobby Astyr as Hunter

Lin Chen Fu as Chao Tzu

Critical reception

Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com called the film "a jarring viewing experience", and wrote that it "has no substance or dramatics, just a random assortment of poses from actors who don't have martial arts training". He concluded: "It should be fun, but it's a little too dark for comfort, with sex scenes more about domination than pleasure [...] It's all a big goof, and one that could use 100% less rape to be taken seriously as something light."

Home media

In July 2013, The Vixens of Kung Fu was released on DVD by Vinegar Syndrome as a double feature with another 1975 film, Oriental Blue, also directed by Bill Milling. In 2018, Vinegar Syndrome released the film on Blu-ray as part of a five-disc collection titled 5 Films 5 Years - Volume #3.

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Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975. The account is most persuasive where Vixens, Kung and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1975 film by Bill Milling. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q83808946. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1975, 2013 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Vixens of Kung Fu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.