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Praying Mantis

5 average rating
★★★★★
5
Japanese / 84 MIN. / 1983

The Genres

The Synopsis

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?

The Cast

Midori SatsukiRyô HayamiMako ToyodaEtsuko NamiAkiko HyūgaKazuko ShirakawaIsamu NagatoTatsuya NanjoMunemaru KôdaHiroshi KobayashiMakoto ShimotsukaShinzō HottaHirohisa NakataYoshio HayashiKay IshiguroEiji Okada

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