Izuhara Kouichi
Director
We Are Bad Barbers (2026)
Season 1
A quiet retro barbershop hides a dangerous side hustle—its unassuming owner and a sharp-tongued new assistant team up to solve clients’ problems with brute force, for a hefty fee.
Released Jan. 10, 2026
Episode 24 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.second-chance, tmdb.barbershop, tmdb.male-camaraderie, tmdb.small-town
Production Companies: TV Tokyo, Rights Cube
Network: TV Tokyo
S1E1 - Episode 1
After his dream of becoming a charismatic hairdresser is shattered, Higurashi Ayumu (Nakajima Ayumu) embarks on a journey of self-discovery, where he happens to come across Tsukishiro Barber Shop. He begs the owner, Tsukishiro Tsukasa (Kusakawa Takuya), to hire him, but it turns out that Tsukishiro has a secret life as a backroom hairdresser.
Jan. 10, 2026, midnight
S1E2 - Episode 2
Higurashi (Nakajima Ayumu) asks Tsukishiro (Kusakawa Takuya) to help his client, Miyo (Shida Kohaku), who is being attacked by the unscrupulous hairdresser Katsuragi (Watanabe Hide), but ends up working as a live-in employee with no way to pay the fee. One day, a client shows up.
Jan. 17, 2026, midnight
S1E3 - Episode 3
None
Jan. 24, 2026, midnight
TV Tokyo
24 min/ep
72 min
Jan. 10, 2026
Jan. 24, 2026, midnight
Returning Series
NR
Action
Action
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