Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

2002/06/16 • Released • Japanese

Drama
7.0
1h 48m

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.

Director : Kiyoshi Sasabe

Casts
Toshiyuki Nishida

Toshiyuki Nishida

Kagaya

Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe

Okubo

Naoto Ogata

Naoto Ogata

Eguchi

Ryoko Shinohara

Ryoko Shinohara

Natsuka Kashiwagi

Katsutoshi Atarashi

Miyashita

Mitsuko Baisho

Mitsuko Baisho

Masae Murakami

Tohru Emori

Tohru Emori

Terayama (President of Sony)

Renji Ishibashi

Renji Ishibashi

Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)

Hoshi Ishida

Hoshi Ishida

Yuji Kagaya

Jun Kunimura

Jun Kunimura

Koide

Tatsuya Nakadai

Tatsuya Nakadai

Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)

Isao Natsuyagi

Isao Natsuyagi

Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)

Masane Tsukayama

Masane Tsukayama

Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)

Ippei Kanie

Ikuji Nakamura

Ikuji Nakamura

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