Banzai

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Banzai may refer to:

  • A traditional Japanese exclamation meaning "ten thousand years" of long life.

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • Banzai, a French disco group; see Euro disco
  • Banzai! (album), a 1991 album by Tigertailz
  • "Banzai" (Kaela Kimura song)
  • Bonnie Banzai, guitar player and singer in Swedish punkband Asta Kask
  • Banzai (album), a 2017 album by Gata Cattana

Film and television

  • Banzaï, a 1983 French film
  • Banzai (1918 film), an American film
  • Banzai (1997 film), an Italian film
  • Banzai (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Banzai (TV series), a British spoof of Japanese gameshows
  • Banzai (The Lion King), a hyena character from the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • Banzai! (magazine), the German edition of the Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine
  • Banzai Drop, a variation of the diving seated senton professional wrestling move
  • Anime Banzai, an anime convention in Utah, United States

People with the surname

  • Ichirō Banzai (坂西 一良, 1891–1945), Japanese general
  • Buckaroo Banzai, a fictional movie character

Other uses

  • Banzai, Fujian, a town in Pinghe County, Fujian, China
  • Banzai charge or banzai attack, a last, desperate military charge
  • Banzai Cliff, one of the sites of mass Japanese suicide on the island of Saipan during World War II
  • Banzai skydive, the act of throwing a parachute out of a plane and trying to catch up to it in mid-fall, put it on, and deploy it before hitting the ground
  • Banzai Pipeline, a renowned Hawaiian surfing location

See also

  • Bonsai (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Banzai
  • All pages with titles containing Banzai
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