Praying Mantis ( 1983 )

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?

Top 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