Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002 · 108 min · Drama
A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their jobs by increasing sales. They do this by developing the VHS standard. They battle with Sony and their standard and ultimately prevail.
- Director
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Writers
- Kiyoshi Sasabe, Takuya Nishioka
- Released
- June 16, 2002
- Language
- Japanese
Cast
Toshiyuki Nishida
Kagaya
Ken Watanabe
Okubo
Naoto Ogata
Eguchi
Ryoko Shinohara
Natsuka Kashiwagi
Katsutoshi Atarashi
Miyashita
Mitsuko Baisho
Masae Murakami
Tohru Emori
Terayama (President of Sony)
Renji Ishibashi
Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)
Hoshi Ishida
Yuji Kagaya
Jun Kunimura
Koide
Tatsuya Nakadai
Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
Isao Natsuyagi
Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)
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