Banzai

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)
• "Banzai Venus", a 2011 single by SKE48
• Bonnie Banzai, guitarplayer and singer in Swedish punkband Asta Kask

Film and television

• Banzaï, a 1983 French film
• Banzai (film), a 1918 American film
• Banzai (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Banzai (TV series), a spoof of Japanese gameshows
• Banzai (The Lion King), a hyena character from the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King and the Broadway musical of the same name
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, a 1984 American science fiction comedy film

Other uses in arts and entertainment

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

People with the surname

• Ichirō Banzai (坂西 一良, 1891–1945), Japanese general

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 mid fall, put it on, and deploy it before hitting the ground

See also

• Bonsai (disambiguation)