Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 16, 2002

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Toshiyuki Nishida,Ken Watanabe,Naoto Ogata,Ryoko Shinohara,Katsutoshi Atarashi,Mitsuko Baisho,Tohru Emori,Renji Ishibashi,Hoshi Ishida,Jun Kunimuraand 11 more

Director

Kiyoshi Sasabe

Writer

Kiyoshi Sasabe,Takuya Nishioka,Masaaki Satō

Producer

Toshio Zushi,Shigeaki Komatsu

Cinematography

Daisaku Kimura

Music

Michiru Oshima

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0329177