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Praying Mantis
50%
Movie
1h 24m
AI Analysis
Praying Mantis (1983) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Praying Mantis (1983) — a movie tagged as Mystery with tense moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: 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 suspiciou… Our models also surface themes such as ai from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for solo focused viewing. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~84 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Praying Mantis 50% (5 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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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?
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1983-04-08
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- TMDB rating
- 5.0
- TMDB ID
- 613470
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Is there an official trailer for Praying Mantis?
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What is Praying Mantis about?
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 th... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for Praying Mantis?
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How long is the movie Praying Mantis?
The official runtime for Praying Mantis is approximately 84 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
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
Hirohisa Nakata
Osanai
- Y
Yoshio Hayashi
Announcer
- K
Kay Ishiguro
Singer
Eiji Okada
Taichi Dôjima
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