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Praying Mantis (1983)
Directed by Shunichi Kajima
Mystery · 1h 24m
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?
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
Crew
- Director
- Shunichi Kajima
- Screenplay
- Shunichi Kajima, Makoto Naito
- Director of Photography
- Masahiro Okumura
- Original Music Composer
- Shunsuke Kikuchi
Details
- Original title
- 悪女かまきり
- Release date
- 1983-04-08
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company