Praying Mantis

Story

Synopsis

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?

Director

Shunichi Kajima

Writers

Makoto Naito, Shunichi Kajima

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

8 April 1983

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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