Praying Mantis (1983)
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?
Cast
Midori Satsuki
Masako Fujimura
Ryô Hayami
Takayuki Shimazaki
Etsuko Nami
Akiko Hyūga
Masako's mother
Kazuko Shirakawa
Mrs. Matsumiya
Isamu Nagato
Rokusuke Kobayashi
Shinzō Hotta
Hirohisa Nakata
Osanai
Eiji Okada
Taichi DôjimaRecommendations
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