Safari 5000

Safari 5000

177 mins | Action, Adventure | July 19, 1969

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.

Safari 5000

177 mins | Action, Adventure | July 19, 1969

Safari 5000
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers Ishihara Productions
Original title 栄光への５０００キロ
Directors Koreyoshi Kurahara
Writers Gôzô Kasahara, Nobuo Yamada

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

as Yūichirō Takase