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Safari 5000 (1969)

Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara

Overview

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.

Length 177 minutes

Actors

Yûjirô Ishihara | Tatsuya Nakadai | Toshirō Mifune | Emmanuelle Riva | Ruriko Asaoka | Juzo Itami | Kazuhiko Kasai | Shinji Kanai | Jean-Claude Drouot | Alain Cuny | Taketoshi Naitô | Isao Tamagawa | Akio Muto | Mizuho Suzuki