The Ear Cleaner

A drama that presents a lively depiction of a woman plagued with unexplainable hearing problems who begins to look at herself in a new light when she starts working at an ear-cleaning parlor. Using ears as a motif, director Horiuchi Hiroshi delicately evokes emotional changes within young people. As the result of a disaster, Ena (Sakuragi Rina) ends up breaking up with her lover and even suffers the cancelation of a promise of work. As she begins to be troubled from ongoing hearing loss of unknown cause, she finds a job at an ear-cleaning parlor through an old friend. Then one day Ena is reunited with Yoshinobu (Nakata Akira), who is drawn to her beautiful ears.

• Release date
• November 24, 2012
• Runtime
• 107 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Hiroshi Horiuchi

Cast

Rina Sakuragi Ena Mitsuta Sow Hirosawa Ai

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Akatsuki Nakata

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Akira Nakata Yoshinobu Kawamura Shinji Kasahara Sawa Masaki Shohei Uno