Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS (2002)

8.0/10 • 108 min • Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Toshiyuki Nishida

Kagaya

Ken Watanabe

Okubo

Naoto Ogata

Eguchi

Ryoko Shinohara

Natsuka Kashiwagi

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)

Masane Tsukayama

Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)

Ippei Kanie

Hisashi Igawa

Ikuji Nakamura

Kyoko Maya

Keiko Kagaya

Adeyto

Secretary (as Laura Windrath)

Ryosei Tayama

Hattori (Nippon Victor)

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