Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
陽はまた昇る
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.
2002-06-16
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Cast
Director
Kiyoshi Sasabe
Toshiyuki Nishida as Kagaya
Ken Watanabe as Okubo
Naoto Ogata as Eguchi
Ryoko Shinohara as Natsuka Kashiwagi
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
Kyoko Maya as Keiko Kagaya
Adeyto as Secretary (as Laura Windrath)
Ryosei Tayama as Hattori (Nippon Victor)