A Catholic priest (Song Kang-ho), turned into a vampire after undergoing a dangerous medical experiment, is drawn to the lonely wife (Kim Ok-vin) of the priest’s feeble school chum. In this nutsy-greatsy melodrama, the acting revelation is Kim, who evolves from a creature of mute docility to one of desperate ardor, then explosive eroticism, then murderous intent.

Get a Gift Voucher. Supremely handy and imminently collectable Gift Vouchers are now available on Madman.com.au These Gift Vouchers are printed cards you can give physically to anyone you wish, and that person will then spend it virtually on Madman.com.au. Madman Website Gift Voucher $20 Madman Website Gift Voucher $50 Madman Website Gift Voucher $75 Madman Website Gift Voucher $100 Each voucher card comes with a unique code to be redeemed on the site while making an order, has easy to follow instructions, and can be purchased on its own or in a regular DVD order.

MELBOURNE, MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2008. Madman Entertainment swept the board at this year?s annual Australian Visual Software Distributors Association (AVSDA) awards, taking home four highly prestigious awards. Madman won in the following categories for titles released from 01 June 07 – 31 June 08: o Highest selling retail title from an Independent Distributor:TRANSFORMERS GEN 1 COMPLETE COLLECTION o Best marketing campaign for a theatrical release with a $1 – 5m box office: THIS IS ENGLAND o Best catalogue marketing campaign: ICONIC AUSTRALIAN FILMS o Best selling title in the children’s animation category: TRANSFORMERS GEN 1 COMPLETE COLLECTION o Madman was also shortlisted in the best TV marketing campaign category for MIDSOMER MURDERS – 10 MURDEROUSLY GOOD SEASONS The annual AVSDA awards ceremony is the industry’s night of nights with all major studios and major and independent distributors in fulsome attendance; competition for awards is fiercely contested.

MADMAN is proud to be a part of this year’s Japanese Film Festival with some great MADMAN films screening at festival locations around the country. The MADMAN films showing are: *LOVE AND HONOR* – Showing in: Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne A veteran of over 40 years of directing, Yoji Yamada returns with the final installment in the TWILIGHT SAMURAI trilogy. _______________________________________ *ALWAYS SUNSET ON THIRD STREET* – Showing in: Perth, Brisbane, Canberra Melbourne Yamazaki Takashi, Japan’s top visual effects artist, has perfectly re-created the old residential streets of Tokyo in the late 1950s, the era which was the country’s biggest turning point – the beginning of the future of what Japan is today.

The joys of visiting Japan are many and varied, with a new activity to add to your itinerary as reported by AFP: “A SPANISH tourist in Tokyo has caused havoc as he swam naked in the moat around the Imperial Palace, one of Japan’s most sacrosanct sites. Police seized the bald and portly man after a nearly two-hour chase in which he hurled rocks at police and scaled the moat’s walls as shocked onlookers snapped photos from their mobile phones. While the group was speaking with police to help, the man reportedly threw his belongings out of his pockets, stripped naked and dived straight into the water.

The humans who miss this years top anime on TV – will cry. Don’t forget to set aside your notebooks and glue yourselves to the box this Monday at 9.30pm for the debut of DEATH NOTE on ABC2. ABC2 is a free-to-air digital channel which can be viewed on a standard set top box or if you have a digital or high-definition tuner built into your TV.

Each month, Madman have a number of titles available to rent. If you would like to receive updates on these titles via our new Madman Rental Highlights Newsletter, then just head over to ‘Join the Mailing List’ on the front page of www.madman.com.au. Be sure to tick ‘International Films’, ‘Australian Films’, ‘Film Classics’ and ‘Asian Films’, and each month, you will receive the Madman Rental Highlights Newsletter, straight to your email.

This Valentines day, celebrate the odd couplings (or triplings, or quadruplings!) in life by putting together at least two or more of a selection of great titles and get 50% off. All you need to do is hit the link below, add at least two titles to your basket, and during the checkout, use the voucher code COUPLES and click ACTIVATE to claim your discount. Get your matchups in quick as the sale ends February 29th.

Freshly acquired for Madman from Sundance 2008 comes the UK docu-comedy, A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES. Directed by and starring Chris Waitt, freshly dumped and deeply despondent over what seems to be an endless string of disastrous relationships, we follow Waitt as he attempts to root out the source of his romantic woes by tracking down each of his ex-girlfriends and asking them point blank about his shortcomings as a boyfriend. I ended up thinking about my penis a lot when I should have been thinking about my ex-girlfriends and what I did wrong in my life.

Relaunched in September with a newly developed, high quality, lightning fast player, the Madman Screening Room is *the* place to watch anime trailers on the web. Our screening room already boasts over 200 high resolution trailers with new trailers for our latest upcoming titles added every month. What’s more, we’ve been trawling through our back catalogue and will soon have over 90% of the trailers on our site in this new format.