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)
• Bonnie Banzai, guitar player and singer in Swedish punkband Asta Kask
• Banzai (album), a 2017 album by Gata Cattana
• "Banzai", a song by Kevin Coyne from his 1982 album Politicz

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 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
• Banzai, Fujian, a town in Pinghe County, Fujian, China

See also

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