Praying Mantis

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1983 · 84 min · Mystery · TMDB 5.0/10

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?

Directed by Shunichi Kajima

Cast

• Midori Satsuki — Masako Fujimura
• Ryô Hayami — Takayuki Shimazaki
• Mako Toyoda — Kaoru Ibuki
• Etsuko Nami
• Akiko Hyūga — Masako's mother