Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002 · 1h 48m · N/A
Drama
Directed by
Kiyoshi Sasabe
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 and cast
- Kiyoshi Sasabe Director
- 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
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