Safari 5000

Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara

With Yūjirō Ishihara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Emmanuelle Riva and Ruriko Asaoka

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.