Be Sure to Share

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Be Sure to Share
Directed bySion Sono
Written bySion Sono
StarringAkira
Eiji Okuda
Ayumi Ito
Keiko Takahashi
CinematographyShogo Ueno
Release date
  • July 5, 2009 (2009-07-05) (New York Asian Film Festival)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Be Sure to Share (ちゃんと伝える, Chanto Tsutaeru) is a 2009 Japanese drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. It screened at the 2009 New York Asian Film Festival.

Plot[edit]

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it's too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late 20s and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share it with his loved ones.

Reception[edit]

''Be Sure to Share surely is one of the last movies we would have expected to see from the director of the extreme, Sion Sono.", stated a review on AsianMovieWeb.[1] This surprise is shared by another positive review, finding that the film's "conflicted portrait of machismo humbled before mortality is graced with a climactic act of desperation from Shiro, as moving as it is uncomfortable in expressing the irrationality of love, that leaves this question in a state of agonizing irresolution."[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Be Sure to Share (Japan, 2009) - Review | AsianMovieWeb". www.asianmovieweb.com. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  2. ^ Review, In (2016-08-19). "Be Sure to Share | Sion Sono". In Review Online. Retrieved 2023-05-12.

External links[edit]

Film details at JapanSociety