The Ear Cleaner (耳をかく女) 12 years old

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.

Credits

The Ear Cleaner Cast

Name Character
Sawa Masaki She was 38, now 50 years old
Shinji Kasahara He was 38, now 50 years old

The Ear Cleaner Crew

Name Department
The Ear Cleaner poster
The Ear Cleaner (12 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, November 24, 2012
  • Runtime: 107 minutes