Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS (2002)
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.
- Released
- 2002-06-16
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kiyoshi Sasabe, Kiyoshi Sasabe, Takuya Nishioka
- TMDB rating
- 8.0/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Toshiyuki Nishida as Kagaya
- Ken Watanabe as Okubo
- Naoto Ogata as Eguchi
- Ryoko Shinohara as Natsuka Kashiwagi
- Katsutoshi Atarashi as Miyashita
- Mitsuko Baisho as Masae Murakami
- Tohru Emori as Terayama (President of Sony)
- Renji Ishibashi as Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)
- Hoshi Ishida as Yuji Kagaya
- Jun Kunimura as Koide
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
- Isao Natsuyagi as Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)