Actress Nao is cast in WOWOW drama series “Beauty Salon in Prison.” The drama series is based on 2018 novel “Hei no Naka no Biyoshitsu” by Mina Sakurai, which was also adapted into a manga series in 2020. The premise of a beauty salon in a women’s prison that the novel depicts is based on real beauty salons that exists in several women’s prison in Japan. Nao will play Haru Komatsubara. She cuts the hair of ordinary citizens at a beauty salon within a women’s prison.
“Beauty Salon in Prison” consists of 7 episodes and will first air August 22, 2025 in Japan.
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Inside a women’s prison, there is a beauty salon where inmate Haru Komatsubara (Nao) cuts the hair of ordinary people. Haru Komatsubara, who committed a serous crime, is the only hairdresser at the beauty salon. Her customers, having their own circumstances, visit the salon to have their hair done. Gentle and quiet, Haru Komatsubara carefully cuts their hair and listens to their thoughts as if she is emphasizing with them. Haru Komatsubara keeps asking herself whether she can atone for her crime if she finishes her prison term. One day, her older sister Natsu Komatsubara visits the beauty salon inside the women’s prison.
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