Safari 5000 (1969)
Original title: 栄光への５０００キロ
Safari 5000 is a 1969 Japanese-language action movie directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, with a running time of 2h 57m. It stars Yūjirō Ishihara, Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshirō Mifune.
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.