Praying Mantis (1983)

5.0/10 • 84 min • Mystery

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

Isamu Nagato

Rokusuke Kobayashi

Shinzō Hotta

Hirohisa Nakata

Osanai

Eiji Okada

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