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    Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

    108'

    2002-06-16

    8

    Drama

    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.

    DirectingKiyoshi SasabeWritingKiyoshi Sasabe

    Cast

    2

    Kagaya

    Toshiyuki Nishida

    4

    Okubo

    Ken Watanabe

    1

    Eguchi

    Naoto Ogata

    2

    Natsuka Kashiwagi

    Ryoko Shinohara

    1

    Miyashita

    Katsutoshi Atarashi

    2

    Masae Murakami

    Mitsuko Baisho

    1

    Terayama (President of Sony)

    Tohru Emori

    3

    Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)

    Renji Ishibashi

    1

    Yuji Kagaya

    Hoshi Ishida

    3

    Koide

    Jun Kunimura

    3

    Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)

    Tatsuya Nakadai

    2

    Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)

    Isao Natsuyagi

    1

    Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)

    Masane Tsukayama

    1

    Ippei Kanie

    1

    Hisashi Igawa

    2

    Ikuji Nakamura

    1

    Keiko Kagaya

    Kyoko Maya

    1

    Secretary (as Laura Windrath)

    Adeyto

    1

    Takashi Kikuchi

    1

    Hattori (Nippon Victor)

    Ryosei Tayama

    1

    American

    Cliff Taylor

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. Japan
    • List of languages:
      1. Japanese
    • List of companies:
      1. Vote Count: 3
      2. Popularity: 0.8486
      3. Status: Released
      4. Original title:陽はまた昇る

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