Film
Praying Mantis
1983 · 1h 24m · Mystery
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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
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
Hirohisa Nakata
Osanai
Yoshio Hayashi
Announcer
Kay Ishiguro
Singer
Eiji Okada
Taichi Dôjima
Crew
- Shunichi KajimaDirector · Screenplay
- Makoto NaitoScreenplay
- Masahiro OkumuraDirector of Photography
- Shunsuke KikuchiOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 8, 1983
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Mystery
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