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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS

"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

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Toshiyuki Nishida

as Kagaya

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Ken Watanabe

as Okubo

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Naoto Ogata

as Eguchi

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Ryoko Shinohara

as Natsuka Kashiwagi

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Katsutoshi Atarashi

as Miyashita

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Mitsuko Baisho

as Masae Murakami

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Tohru Emori

as Terayama (President of Sony)

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Renji Ishibashi

as Kanezawa (Vice-President of Nippon Victor)

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Hoshi Ishida

as Yuji Kagaya

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Jun Kunimura

as Koide

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Tatsuya Nakadai

as Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)

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Isao Natsuyagi

as Takeda (President of Nippon Victor)

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Masane Tsukayama

as Watarai (Managing Director of Nippon Victor)

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Ippei Kanie

as

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Ikuji Nakamura

as

Crew

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Kiyoshi Sasabe

Director

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Kiyoshi Sasabe

Writer