Praying Mantis (1983)
A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?
- Released
- 1983-04-08
- Genres
- Mystery
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Shunichi Kajima, Makoto Naito, Shunichi Kajima
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Midori Satsuki as Masako Fujimura
- Ryô Hayami as Takayuki Shimazaki
- Mako Toyoda as Kaoru Ibuki
- Etsuko Nami
- Akiko Hyūga as Masako's mother
- Kazuko Shirakawa as Mrs. Matsumiya
- Isamu Nagato as Rokusuke Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nanjo as Kazuo Ibuki
- Munemaru Kôda as Tachibana
- Hiroshi Kobayashi
- Makoto Shimotsuka as Shingo Hashimoto
- Shinzō Hotta
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