Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS (2002)
20021h 48mDrama
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 NishidaKagaya
Ken WatanabeOkubo
Naoto OgataEguchi
Ryoko ShinoharaNatsuka Kashiwagi- KKatsutoshi AtarashiMiyashita
Mitsuko BaishoMasae Murakami
Tohru EmoriTerayama (President of Sony)
Renji IshibashiKanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)
Hoshi IshidaYuji Kagaya
Jun KunimuraKoide
Tatsuya NakadaiMatsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
Isao NatsuyagiTakeda (President of Nippon Victor)
Masane TsukayamaWatarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)
Ippei Kanie
Ikuji Nakamura
Kyoko MayaKeiko Kagaya
AdeytoSecretary (as Laura Windrath)- TTakashi Kikuchi
Crew
- Director
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Producers
- Toshio ZushiShigeaki Komatsu
- Music
- Michiru Oshima
- Cinematography
- Daisaku Kimura
- Editing
- Hideaki Ohata
Details
- Released
- June 16, 2002
- Language
- Japanese
- IMDb
- tt0329177