The Ear Cleaner
2012, Japanese. Directed by Hiroshi Horiuchi.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 24 November 2012
- Original title
- 耳をかく女
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Hiroshi Horiuchi
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The Ear Cleaner runs 107 minutes (1h 47m).
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The Ear Cleaner isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 24 November 2012. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Ear Cleaner?
The Ear Cleaner (2012) was directed by Hiroshi Horiuchi and stars Rina Sakuragi, Sow Hirosawa, Akatsuki Nakata.