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    Three Year Delivery

    Miako TADANO 2005 Japan Fiction color 99min 35mm
    Twenty nine year old Fuyuko Matsuda is in her 9th month of pregnancy. She hangs around her suburban Tokyo home all day long, not feeling quite ready to be a mother. Her feckless husband, Toru, is not ready to be a father, either. He is having an affair on the side and he rolls home drunk, every night and collapses into bed. Fuyuko knows about her husband's affair, but decides not to confront him about it, hoping it will be over soon. Meanwhile, her capricious younger sister has fallen in love with a Doctor called Kai, who is older than her missing father, and she begins to become strangely obsessed with the idea of transforming her own body into that of a man. The pregnancy continues but the baby refuses to enter the world. By the 18th month Fuyuko's belly has swollen to enormous proportions. Toru begins to suspect that his wife is going to give birth to an alien. Meanwhile Fuyuko has become a media celebrity because of the unusual length of her term. By the 27month of pregnancy relationships in the family have become completely strained. Fuyuko and Toru are in hiding in a remote country cottage and her belly has assumed the shape of a strange pyramid. Kai believes that the child, which is now one and a half years old must be an advanced evolutionary form of humanity. When all the hidden secrets and desires of the characters are finally exposed, Fuyuko goes into labour.

    Director

    Miako TADANO

    Miako TADANO was bom in Tokyo on October 2, 1973. She studied graphic design at Musahino Art College. From 1994, she became involved as an actress in 15 pieces of the One Piece short films project by Shinobu Yaguchi and Takuji Suzuki and others. In order to study filmmaking, she entered the Visual Arts Course of Tama Art University in 1996 and produced and directed some short films. In 1997 she made her feature film debut in French Dressing (dir. Hisashi Saito) and won the best newcomer actress award of the Mainichi Movie Concours/Sponichi Grand Prix for her performance. Since then, she has appeared in various films by the well-known Japanese directors. Besides theatrical films, she has also appeared in TV programs and TV commercials. She has also worked as a script writer on TV dramas such as Junior High School Diary. Three Year Delivery is her first feature film as director and script writer. She has also published a novel with the same title.

    Miako TADANO

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