Praying Mantis (1983)

Mystery

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

Masako Fujimura
Takayuki Shimazaki
Shingo Hashimoto
Taichi Dôjima
Kaoru Ibuki
Masako's mother
Mrs. Matsumiya
Rokusuke Kobayashi
Kazuo Ibuki

Crew

Screenplay
Art Direction
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography