Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS (2002)
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.
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Toshiyuki Nishida
as Kagaya
Toshiyuki Nishida (西田 敏行, Nishida Toshiyuki, born November 4, 1947, died October 17, 2024) was a Japanese actor. He has won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for The Silk Road (1988) and Tsu...
Ken Watanabe
as Okubo
Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayash...
Naoto Ogata
as Eguchi
Naoto Ogata (緒形 直人, Ogata Naoto, born September 22, 1967 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actor..
Ryoko Shinohara
as Natsuka Kashiwagi
Ryoko Shinohara (篠原 涼子, Shinohara Ryōko, born August 13, 1973) is a Japanese singer and actress..
Mitsuko Baisho
as Masae Murakami
Mitsuko Baisho (born 22 November 1946 in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan) is a noted Japanese actress, whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the directo...
Tohru Emori
as Terayama (President of Sony)
Director
Kiyoshi Sasabe
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