"Dawn of a New Day" film review by Shane Burke

Dawn of a New Day explores the notion of never giving up and continuing your efforts no matter what the risks are. The main character in the story is put in a position which seems to be a demotion rather than progressing his career. In Japanese society many business men are forced into retirement by the emerging younger generation. So when he is given a job of less importance he is intitially devasted and finds that he is on a slow decline to retirement with no prestige. However, as the title reveals about the film; he sees the oppurtunity in a market that lasks VHS. He changes a company of little prestige and importance and transforms it into the driving power behind what we know of today as recordable media.

The main character is faced with many challenges that post barriers in his plan for consumer friendly media, including his personal relationship with his wife (who suffers a stroke), company's requirements, and his own staff at victor. Through these challenges, his vision only becomes stronger and he finds ways of making things happen rather than conforming to what people tell him to do. He feels that every problem can be solved and even results to very unconventional means to change the outcome of his project. He eventually succeeds in his manufacturing of the VHS, infleunce on his companies chairmen, and his relationship with his wife and son. He ends up retiring to see that his vision has been completed and that he made a difference in the world by sticking to what he felt was right and not conforming to others. Although his methods are unconventional, he proves that never giving up on something that you truely believe will be benfitial in the long run.

Shane Burke