Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS (2002)

★ 8.0 1h 48m 3 votes IMDb
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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.

Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

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Cast

Toshiyuki Nishida
Toshiyuki Nishida as Kagaya Died 2024 · Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan 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
Ken Watanabe as Okubo Age 66 · Uonuma, Niigata, Japan 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
Naoto Ogata as Eguchi Age 58 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Naoto Ogata (緒形 直人, Ogata Naoto, born September 22, 1967 in Yokohama) is a Japanese actor..
Ryoko Shinohara
Ryoko Shinohara as Natsuka Kashiwagi Age 52 · Isesaki, Gunma, Japan Ryoko Shinohara (篠原 涼子, Shinohara Ryōko, born August 13, 1973) is a Japanese singer and actress..
Mitsuko Baisho
Mitsuko Baisho as Masae Murakami Age 79 · Ibaraki, Japan 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
Tohru Emori as Terayama (President of Sony) Age 82 · Tokyo, Japan
Director Kiyoshi Sasabe
Cast Toshiyuki Nishida, Ken Watanabe, Naoto Ogata, Ryoko Shinohara, Katsutoshi Atarashi, Mitsuko Baisho, Tohru Emori, Renji Ishibashi, Hoshi Ishida, Jun Kunimura

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