Praying Mantis
1983A 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?
Acted in
Midori Satsuki
as Masako Fujimura
Ryô Hayami
as Takayuki Shimazaki
Mako Toyoda
as Kaoru Ibuki
Etsuko Nami
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
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Makoto Shimotsuka
as Shingo Hashimoto
Shinzo Hotta
Hirohisa Nakata
as Osanai
Yoshio Hayashi
as Announcer
Kay Ishiguro
as Singer
Eiji Okada
as Taichi Dôjima