Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
20021h 48m8.0
Drama
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genre
- Drama
- Origin
- Japan
About
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in Japan.
Details
- Director
- Kiyoshi Sasabe
- Writing
- Kiyoshi Sasabe, Takuya Nishioka
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Jun 16, 2002
Cast
Toshiyuki Nishida
Kagaya
Ken Watanabe
Okubo
Naoto Ogata
Eguchi
Ryoko Shinohara
Natsuka Kashiwagi
Katsutoshi Atarashi
Miyashita
Mitsuko Baisho
Masae Murakami
Tohru Emori
Terayama (President of Sony)
Renji Ishibashi
Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)
Hoshi Ishida
Yuji Kagaya
Jun Kunimura
Koide
Tatsuya Nakadai
Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)
Isao Natsuyagi
Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)
Masane Tsukayama
Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)
Ippei Kanie
Hisashi Igawa
Ikuji Nakamura
Kyoko Maya
Keiko Kagaya
Adeyto
Secretary (as Laura Windrath)
Takashi Kikuchi
Ryosei Tayama
Hattori (Nippon Victor)
If you like this
The Ballad of Narayama
19837.5
Come Sunday
20185.8
Skin
20096.4
Hurry Sundown
19676.4
Gracie
20076.2
My Neighbor Adolf
20226.6
The Safety of Objects
20026.5
Home
20216.7
1
20206.7
Hands of Stone
20166.6
Bastard Out of Carolina
19967.1
Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu
20137.6
Won't Back Down
20126.2
Vanya on 42nd Street
19946.7
TalhotBlond
20126.3
Hardball
20016.5
Love & Pop
19987.7
Tigertail
20206.7
Taboo
19996.6
Farming
20186.2