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.
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Plot
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
''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. 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."