Praying Mantis

3.5
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Run time: 84 min
  • Premiere: 1983. April 8.

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?

Discover

Midori Satsuki

Masako Fujimura

Ryô Hayami

Takayuki Shimazaki

Mako Toyoda

Kaoru Ibuki

Akiko Hyûga

Masako's mother

Kazuko Shirakawa

Mrs. Matsumiya

Isamu Nagato

Rokusuke Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nanjo

Kazuo Ibuki

Munemaru Kôda

Tachibana

Makoto Shimotsuka

Shingo Hashimoto

Yoshio Hayashi

Announcer

Eiji Okada

Taichi Dôjima

Art

Tsutomu Imamura

Art Direction

Camera

Masahiro Okumura

Director of Photography

Directing

Sound

Shunsuke Kikuchi

Original Music Composer

Writing

Makoto Naito

Screenplay

Shunichi Kajima

Screenplay

Art

Tsutomu Imamura

Art Direction

Camera

Masahiro Okumura

Director of Photography

Directing

Sound

Shunsuke Kikuchi

Original Music Composer

Writing

Makoto Naito

Screenplay

Shunichi Kajima

Screenplay