Praying Mantis (1983)
悪女かまきり
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?
- Date of release
- 1983-04-08
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Shunichi Kajima
Casting
- Midori Satsuki — Masako Fujimura
- Ryô Hayami — Takayuki Shimazaki
- Mako Toyoda — Kaoru Ibuki
- Etsuko Nami
- Akiko Hyūga — Masako's mother
- Kazuko Shirakawa — Mrs. Matsumiya
- Isamu Nagato — Rokusuke Kobayashi
- Tatsuya Nanjo — Kazuo Ibuki
- Munemaru Kôda — Tachibana
- Hiroshi Kobayashi
- Makoto Shimotsuka — Shingo Hashimoto
- Shinzō Hotta
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