Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant
Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant
1984, Japanese. Directed by Sakumi Hagiwara.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 January 1984
- Original title
- 時代はサーカスの象にのって
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Shūji Terayama
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Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant runs 87 minutes (1h 27m).
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Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1984. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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If you liked Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant, try Dumbo, The Greatest Showman, The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act.
Who directed Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant?
Our Age Comes Riding on a Circus Elephant (1984) was directed by Sakumi Hagiwara and stars Mie, Koichi Makigami, Kyôko Takami.