Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Hoshi Ishida · Jun Kunimura · Katsutoshi Atarashi · Ken Watanabe · Mitsuko Baisho · Naoto Ogata · Renji Ishibashi · Ryoko Shinohara · Tohru Emori · Toshiyuki Nishida · Kiyoshi Sasabe · Takuya Nishioka