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 earcleaning 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 earcleaning parlor through an old friend Then one day Ena is reunited with Yoshinobu Nakata Akira who is drawn to her beautiful ears