Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS (2002)
陽はまた昇る
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.
- Date of release
- 2002-06-16
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
Casting
- 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)
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