Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis

84 mins | Mystery | April 8, 1983

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?

Praying Mantis

84 mins | Mystery | April 8, 1983

Praying Mantis
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?
Producers Toei Company, Ltd.
Original title 悪女かまきり
Directors Shunichi Kajima
Writers Shunichi Kajima, Makoto Naito

Cast

Midori Satsuki

as Masako Fujimura

Ryô Hayami

as Takayuki Shimazaki

Mako Toyoda

as Kaoru Ibuki

Akiko Hyûga

as Masako's mother

Kazuko Shirakawa

as Mrs. Matsumiya

Isamu Nagato

as Rokusuke Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nanjo

as Kazuo Ibuki

Munemaru Kôda

as Tachibana

Makoto Shimotsuka

as Shingo Hashimoto

Hirohisa Nakata

as Osanai

Yoshio Hayashi

as Announcer

Kay Ishiguro

as Singer

Eiji Okada

as Taichi Dôjima