
Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
1 hour 48 minutes2002-06-16
7.0
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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

Katsutoshi Atarashi
Miyashita

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
