Lacking a coherent plot, We're All Riding on a Circus Elephant depicts the collapse of western civilization as a free-form collage advocating group anarchy and actor improvisation. The stage is a boxing ring. Those actors who are "onstage" get into the boxing ring and assault each other with words. Others heckle and cheer at the sidelines, or act as a rhythm-and-blues chorus while changing costumes or wigs. Taking as its coda Andy Warhol's dictum that everyone gets fifteen minutes of fame, actor transformations depict the Breakdown of Japanese values and selfhood due to an obsession with popular American culture.
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Stars: Mie, Koichi Makigami, Kyôko Takami, Noriyuki Suzuki
Crew: Sakumi Hagiwara (Director), Shūji Terayama (Writer)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
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Runtime: 87 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1984
IMDb: 10
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