Limited series · TV Tokyo
We Are Bad Barbers
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ayumu Nakajima
Ayumu Higure
12 eps
Takuya Kusakawa
Tsukasa Tsukishiro
12 eps
Konosuke Harada
Fuma Shiga
12 eps
Mizuki Yoshida
Riko Furukawa
12 eps
Tatsuomi Hamada
Tsubasa Nitta
12 eps
Takenori Goto
Jo Ushikubo
12 eps
Masanori Mimoto
12 eps
Tateto Serizawa
12 eps
Kilala Inori
12 eps
Kokona Sumi
12 eps
Yamato Kochi
12 eps
Mutsuo Yoshioka
12 eps
Tsubaki Nekoze
12 eps
Kengo Kora
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How We Are Bad Barbers actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
We Are Bad Barbers reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
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.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yusuke SuzukiProducer
- 大島康寛Producer
- Mina KaseProducer
- Nakazawa KentaProducer
- Tsunoda RikuProducer
Direction
- Yugo SakamotoDirector
- Izuhara KouichiDirector
- Wataru HiranamiDirector
Music
- Takashi TsuzukiOriginal Music Composer
- Seitaro TsuzukiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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