Cast of
Praying Mantis

About Praying Mantis

  • Released on April 08, 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?

Full Cast of Praying Mantis

Midori Satsuki
plays Masako Fujimura

Ryô Hayami
plays Takayuki Shimazaki

Mako Toyoda
plays Kaoru Ibuki

Etsuko Nami

Akiko Hyûga
plays Masako's mother

Kazuko Shirakawa
plays Mrs. Matsumiya

Isamu Nagato
plays Rokusuke Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nanjo
plays Kazuo Ibuki

Munemaru Kôda
plays Tachibana

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Makoto Shimotsuka
plays Shingo Hashimoto

Shinzo Hotta

Hirohisa Nakata
plays Osanai

Yoshio Hayashi
plays Announcer

Kay Ishiguro
plays Singer

Eiji Okada
plays Taichi Dôjima


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