

Praying Mantis
1983 Directed by Shunichi KajimaA 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?
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Midori Satsuki
....................................................Masako Fujimura

Ryô Hayami
....................................................Takayuki Shimazaki
Mako Toyoda
....................................................Kaoru Ibuki

Etsuko Nami
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Akiko Hyūga
....................................................Masako's mother

Kazuko Shirakawa
....................................................Mrs. Matsumiya

Isamu Nagato
....................................................Rokusuke Kobayashi
Director
...........................................................Shunichi Kajima
Screenplay
...........................................................Makoto Naito
Shunichi Kajima
Art Direction
...........................................................Tsutomu Imamura
Original Music Composer
...........................................................Shunsuke Kikuchi
Director of Photography
...........................................................Masahiro Okumura
Production Companies
...................................................Toei Company
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Mystery
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