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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

Genre:Drama

Released:2002-06-16

Runtime:108

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.


Cast:

Toshiyuki Nishida

Character: Kagaya

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Ken Watanabe

Character: Okubo

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Naoto Ogata

Character: Eguchi

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Ryoko Shinohara

Character: Natsuka Kashiwagi

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Katsutoshi Atarashi

Character: Miyashita

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Mitsuko Baisho

Character: Masae Murakami

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Tohru Emori

Character: Terayama (President of Sony)

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Renji Ishibashi

Character: Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)

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Hoshi Ishida

Character: Yuji Kagaya

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Jun Kunimura

Character: Koide

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Tatsuya Nakadai

Character: Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)

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Isao Natsuyagi

Character: Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)

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Masane Tsukayama

Character: Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)

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Ippei Kanie

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Ikuji Nakamura

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