Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
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.
Release Date
June 16, 2002Runtime
108 minGenres
DramaDirected by
Kiyoshi SasabeWritten by
Kiyoshi SasabeLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9J5wDRr4ue5iiOw3PLmrVIqMKtc.jpg)
Cast
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9AntCfhWQZN1eDLokfuk75Wa1Kt.jpg)
Toshiyuki Nishida
Kagaya![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/w2t30L5Cmr34myAaUobLoSgsLfS.jpg)
Ken Watanabe
Okubo![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9vAzFrvZQORqxHK9flS9cRIhOMb.jpg)
Naoto Ogata
Eguchi![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/sr02j4sbouNyuCKGEb6ZB0ikd8W.jpg)
Ryoko Shinohara
Natsuka Kashiwagi![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/9KxtTA9ygsuWrWOFWp75A8D4EPc.jpg)
Mitsuko Baisho
Masae Murakami![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/Qdzjq7UANUZfko03sCsebTniVL.jpg)
Tohru Emori
Terayama (President of Sony)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/n3mXTldssi3Dm0H9cfYvrKpfE86.jpg)
Renji Ishibashi
Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/bZSb4m99ehyq1KaZCGmQByvRW5z.jpg)
Hoshi Ishida
Yuji Kagaya![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zC0GbuXQGPur7i8AkdPUWedmDKz.jpg)
Jun Kunimura
Koide![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4LygOe0vFQplLIft5IUWI5OewPX.jpg)
Tatsuya Nakadai
Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/ijjqgeXNxtzbPFrtsX2ZXQheFY0.jpg)
Isao Natsuyagi
Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/7zeWvl3m6EAqCL0TKwGL3hVso3F.jpg)
Masane Tsukayama
Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/6CZABcNV6f6zVWImdT7Eg7eFDOb.jpg)
Ikuji Nakamura
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