Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
2002A 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.
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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
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
Isao Natsuyagi
as Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)
Masane Tsukayama
as Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)
Ippei Kanie
Ikuji Nakamura