August Region 4 DVD Releases from Madman
Source: Madman Entertainment
Special Thanks to Philippa Lamb
The Australian distributor Madman Entertainment is releasing the following anime and Asian live action titles on Region 4 DVD in August, 2010…
THE GRUDGE: WHITE GHOST/BLACK GHOST
It is 10 years since the original Grudge movies appeared in Japan. We return once more to the dreaded house, to where the evil of the Grudge is spreading in two new feature films. White or Black, which is the scariest?
WHITE GHOST
In a certain house, a son who failed the bar examination kills five members of his family one by one. He then dies by hanging himself. At the moment of his death, he made a cassette tape recording in which he can be heard saying “I’ll go. I’ll go soon…” On the same tape can be heard the eerie sound of a young girl’s voice. The curse of The Grudge has been re-awakened.
BLACK GHOST
Nurse Yuko is left in charge of a young girl named Fukie, and begins to experience strange things. Medical examination reveals that there is a ?cyst’ in Fukie’s body. The hatred of the unborn one is feeding off of the young girl, and cursing the people around her. This is The Grudge of someone that could not be born… Filled with an unimaginable hatred, people are killed one after the other with the curse.
Release Date: 11/08/2010
Audio tracks: Dolby 4.0
Languages: Japanese
Genre: Asian Cinema, Horror
Subtitles: English subtitles
Runtime: 116.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 4 (PAL)
KAMUI
Once a powerful ninja, Kamui walks away from his violent and murderous ways. His travels bring him to a seashore village where he meets Hanbei, a fisherman who shares the former ninja’s sense of honour. Though Hanbei’s wife is wary of the stranger, the fisherman and Kamui become good friends. Life at the seaside seems idyllic but Kamui doesn’t get to enjoy the peace for very long when, one day, a band of pirates arrive…
It seems that his past life is catching up on him, and everything and everyone is not as it seems. Now he must draw upon his shadowy arts if he hopes to escape with his life.
Release Date: 11/08/2010
Audio tracks: Dolby 5.1, Dolby 2.0
Languages: Japanese
Genre: Action / Adventure
Subtitles: English subtitles
Runtime: 116.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 4 (PAL)
DVD Special Features
Original trailer
SOUL EATER COLLECTION 3
Spinning a wicked web!
As students of the Grim Reaper at Death Weapon Meister Academy, Maka is a Meister and Soul is her Weapon – literally. When they take on the supernatural forces of evil, Soul transforms into a razor-sharp scythe and Maka wields him in battle. He gets deadlier with every defeated soul he consumes and each victory strengthens their bond – but Maka, Soul, and their classmates might not be ready to face the darkness headed their way.
After 800 years, the witch Arachne has returned to spin a web of wickedness, leading an army of ghoulish minions in a war against Death Weapon Meister Academy. As demons from the past rise amid betrayal and madness, Maka and Soul are definitely in for the fight of their lives. But, hey – luckily for the fate of the world, they’re a freakin’ lethal team!
Volume 3 of 4
Contains 13 episodes
Release Date: 18/08/2010
Genre: Action / Adventure, Anime, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Occult / Supernatural
Number of Discs: 2
Runtime: 325.0 mins
Format: DVD, (PAL)
Special Features
Soul Eater Late Show
Episode 30 commentary (Todd Haberkorn, Cherami Leigh, Jamie Marchi)
Textless songs
NANA COLLECTION 1
Fame and recognition, or love and happiness?
Two girls with the same name leave their old lives behind and come to Tokyo to start fresh. What adventures await these two hopeful young women under the bright lights of the big city? Nana Osaki wants nothing more than to make it big as the singer of a rock ‘n’ roll band, while Nana Komatsu wants to put her life in motion and get her new relationship off to a good start. When the two Nanas fall in love with the same apartment, they become roommates and then best friends, and the party has just begun!
Volume 1 of 4
Contains 11 episodes
Release Date: 18/08/2010
Languages: ENGLISH & JAPANESE
Genre: Anime, Drama, Romance
Subtitles: ENGLISH subtitles
Number of Discs: 2
Runtime: 286.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 4 (PAL)
LINEBARRELS OF IRON COLLECTION 1
Kouichi dreams of being a hero, but in reality he’s a punching bag for every bully on the block. His life flatlines when the mysteriously naked Emi crash lands on his pitiful existence, thrusting Kouichi into the middle of an intergalactic showdown between rival races of self-regenerating Machinas.
Through his death-bed partnership with the Linebarrel mecha, Kouichi gains the strength to stand up to his tormentors and crush the alien invasion force that’s determined to conquer Earth. There’s just one problem: all this newfound power and special attention from nearly naked babes is turning Kouichi into a jerk. His friends can’t stand him, he makes his dream girl sick, and those aliens want to kill him extra dead!
Kouichi may have the mechanized muscle to save the world, but he has much to learn about being a true “Hero of Justice.”
Volume 1 of 2
Contains 13 episodes
Release Date: 18/08/2010
Audio tracks: ENGLISH & JAPANESE
Languages: ENGLISH
Genre: Science Fiction, Anime, Mecha
Subtitles: ENGLISH subtitles
Runtime: 325.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 4 (PAL)
Special Features
Actor commentary
Promotional video
Original Japanese TV spots
Music video
Textless songs
KURAU PHANTOM MEMORY COLLECTION
The ultimate fusion of human and alien…
Her name is Kurau, and in a world of mercenary agents, she’s the cream of the elite; a master martial artist and thief so skilled that no secret or objective is beyond her grasp. The greatest secret of all, however, is the one Kurau conceals inside herself.
The freak result of a disastrous experiment with a new kind of energy, Kurau’s body has been fused with a binary alien life form called the Rynax. Every second Kurau lives is lived twice; one alien sharing her consciousness, the other still waiting to be born… and now none of those lives may last very long! The truth about Kurau has begun to leak out, a worldwide manhunt has been launched, and now the ultimate agent is the ultimate target.
Contains episodes 1-24
Release Date: 18/08/2010
Languages: ENGLISH, JAPANESE
Genre: Action / Adventure, Anime, Science Fiction
Subtitles: English subtitles
Number of Discs: 4
Runtime: 600.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 4 (PAL)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Original Aspect Ratio
Special Features
Textless Songs
IKKI TOUSEN DRAGON DESTINY (SEASON 2) VOLUME 3
When dragons gather – the fight for destiny!
With Sonsaku’s apparent death, Nanyou’s position in the Kanto region is in question. Discussions with Seito bring Koumei’s long-term plans into focus, and the two schools join forces against their common foe, Kyoshou. Its leader, Sousou, continues to lose more of himself to his ancient namesake and when he is consumed entirely, it’s his friend who pays the price.
History continues to be replayed, and the circumstances leading to another Battle of Red Cliffs fall inexorably in place. When dragons appear in the sky, only an ancient orb can change the tide for those fighting against their destinies.
Volume 3 of 3
Release Date: 18/08/2010
Languages: ENGLISH & JAPANESE
Genre: Action / Adventure, Anime, Martial Arts
Subtitles: ENGLISH subtitles
Runtime: 100.0 mins
Format: DVD, (PAL)
Special Features
Textless opening and closing
Promotional video
OVA episodes 5-6
GURREN LAGANN COLLECTION
In his sky-less cavern of a village Simon toils daily, drilling holes to expand his stifling little world until one day he makes an extraordinary discovery: a small glowing drill-bit and the man-sized mecha it activates. Before he can give it a second thought Simon’s dragged into a plot to break through to the surface by the local gang leader Kamina, only to have the ceiling come crashing down on top of them under the weight of a giant monster!
It somehow falls onto the boisterous Kamina and the cowardly Simon to defend their village, but once they defeat the monster what awaits the duo on the surface world?
Release Date: 18/08/2010
Languages: ENGLISH & JAPANESE
Genre: Action / Adventure, Anime, Comedy, Mecha, Science Fiction
Subtitles: ENGLISH subtitles
Number of Discs: 6
Runtime: 650.0 mins
Format: DVD, Region 2 & 4 (PAL)
DRAGON BALL Z KAI COLLECTION 1
The Legendary Z Reborn!
The last descendants of an evil race of warriors known as the Saiyans are on a collision course with Earth, and Goku – the strongest fighter on the planet – is all that stands between humanity and extinction. To save his friends and the world he loves, Goku must travel to a realm from which few return, but should he survive, he’ll discover the power to face the villainous Saiyan warlord – Prince Vegeta.
Volume 1 of 9
Contains episodes 1-13
Release Date: 18/08/2010
Audio tracks: Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS
Languages: ENGLISH & JAPANESE
Genre: Action / Adventure, Anime, Dragon Ball
Subtitles: ENGLISH subtitles
Number of Discs: 2
Runtime: 325.0 mins
Format: DVD, (PAL)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Original Aspect Ratio
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