Praying Mantis

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?

Directed by Shunichi Kajima

Top cast

Midori Satsuki

Masako Fujimura

Ryô Hayami

Takayuki Shimazaki

M

Mako Toyoda

Kaoru Ibuki

Etsuko Nami

Akiko Hyūga

Masako's mother

Kazuko Shirakawa

Mrs. Matsumiya

Isamu Nagato

Rokusuke Kobayashi

T

Tatsuya Nanjo

Kazuo Ibuki

M

Munemaru Kôda

Tachibana

H

Hiroshi Kobayashi

M

Makoto Shimotsuka

Shingo Hashimoto

Shinzō Hotta

Hirohisa Nakata

Osanai

Y

Yoshio Hayashi

Announcer

K

Kay Ishiguro

Singer

Eiji Okada

Taichi Dôjima

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