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Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis

Shunichi Kajima

1983

  • Mystery
5.0

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 & crew

  • Shunichi KajimaDirector
  • Midori SatsukiMasako Fujimura
  • Ryô HayamiTakayuki Shimazaki
  • Mako ToyodaKaoru Ibuki
  • Etsuko Nami
  • Akiko HyūgaMasako's mother
  • Kazuko ShirakawaMrs. Matsumiya
  • Isamu NagatoRokusuke Kobayashi
  • Tatsuya NanjoKazuo Ibuki

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