Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis (1983)

Mystery

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: Shunichi Kajima, Makoto Naito.

Casts

	Midori Satsuki as Masako Fujimura
	Ryô Hayami as Takayuki Shimazaki
	Mako Toyoda as Kaoru Ibuki
	Etsuko Nami as
	Akiko Hyūga as Masako's mother
	Kazuko Shirakawa as Mrs. Matsumiya
	Isamu Nagato as Rokusuke Kobayashi
	Tatsuya Nanjo as Kazuo Ibuki
	Munemaru Kôda as Tachibana
	Hiroshi Kobayashi as
	Makoto Shimotsuka as Shingo Hashimoto
	Shinzō Hotta as
	Hirohisa Nakata as Osanai
	Yoshio Hayashi as Announcer
	Kay Ishiguro as Singer
	Eiji Okada as Taichi Dôjima

Crew