Every once in a while, a distributor will ask audiences not to reveal anything about a film's ending — a gimmick that became popular with "The Crying Game" (1992).
Toho took it up a notch by not screening the last 10 minutes of "20-Seiki Shonen 3" ("20th Century Boys 3") for the press, which I suppose is better than not screening it at all — a tactic U.S. distributors often use to delay critical lambastings until after the all-important opening weekend.
But at Shochiku's press screening of Hitoshi Matsumoto's new comedy "Symbol," I received what for me was a first — a list of five points not to reveal in my review, including anything that happens in the last act.