Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

Kiyoshi Sasabe
2002-06-16


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108 min

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

Name Character Team
Toshiyuki Nishida Kagaya Unowned
Ken Watanabe Okubo The Free Refills
Naoto Ogata Eguchi Unowned
Ryoko Shinohara Natsuka Kashiwagi Unowned
Katsutoshi Atarashi Miyashita Unowned
Mitsuko Baisho Masae Murakami Unowned
Tohru Emori Terayama (President of Sony) Unowned
Renji Ishibashi Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor) Unowned
Hoshi Ishida Yuji Kagaya Unowned
Jun Kunimura Koide Unowned
Tatsuya Nakadai Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.) Unowned
Isao Natsuyagi Takeda (President of Nippon Victor) Unowned
Masane Tsukayama Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor) Unowned
Ippei Kanie Unowned
Ikuji Nakamura Unowned