Praying Mantis
5
5 votes
April 8, 1983
1h 24m
Overview
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?
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Cast
Midori Satsuki
Masako Fujimura
Ryô Hayami
Takayuki ShimazakiMako Toyoda
Kaoru Ibuki
Etsuko Nami
Akiko Hyūga
Masako's mother
Kazuko Shirakawa
Mrs. Matsumiya
Isamu Nagato
Rokusuke KobayashiTatsuya Nanjo
Kazuo IbukiMunemaru Kôda
TachibanaHiroshi Kobayashi
Makoto Shimotsuka
Shingo Hashimoto
Shinzō Hotta
Hirohisa Nakata
OsanaiYoshio Hayashi
AnnouncerKay Ishiguro
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