Safari 5000 (1969)

  • NR
  • 07/19/1969 (JP)
  • Action, Adventure
  • 2h 57m

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.

Nobuo Yamada

Screenplay

Koreyoshi Kurahara

Director

Gôzô Kasahara

Writer

Cast

Yūjirō Ishihara's headshot

Yūjirō Ishihara

Tatsuya Nakadai's headshot

Tatsuya Nakadai

Toshirō Mifune's headshot

Toshirō Mifune

Yūichirō Takase
Emmanuelle Riva's headshot

Emmanuelle Riva

Ruriko Asaoka's headshot

Ruriko Asaoka

Jūzō Itami's headshot

Jūzō Itami

Kazuhiko Kasai's headshot

Kazuhiko Kasai

Shinji Kanai's headshot

Shinji Kanai

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