Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
陽はまた昇る
Release: 2002-06-16
·Runtime: 108m
·★ 7.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Cast
Mitsuko Baisho
as Masae Murakami
Renji Ishibashi
as Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)
Masane Tsukayama
as Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)
Tohru Emori
as Terayama (President of Sony)
Ikuji Nakamura
Toshiyuki Nishida
as Kagaya
Ken Watanabe
as Okubo
Naoto Ogata
as Eguchi
Ryoko Shinohara
as Natsuka Kashiwagi
Hoshi Ishida
as Yuji Kagaya
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
Jun Kunimura
as Koide
Isao Natsuyagi
as Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)
