Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis — Plot

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?

• Release date
• April 8, 1983
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Mystery
• Director
• Shunichi Kajima

Praying Mantis — Cast

Midori Satsuki Masako Fujimura Ryô Hayami Takayuki Shimazaki

M

Mako Toyoda Kaoru Ibuki Etsuko Nami Akiko Hyūga Masako's mother Kazuko Shirakawa Mrs. Matsumiya Isamu Nagato Rokusuke Kobayashi

T

Tatsuya Nanjo Kazuo Ibuki