Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
movie

Released June 16, 2002
Genres:
Overview
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 Nishida
as
Kagaya

Ken Watanabe
as
Okubo

Naoto Ogata
as
Eguchi

Ryoko Shinohara
as
Natsuka Kashiwagi
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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)
