Banzai

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Banzai may refer to:

  • A traditional Japanese exclamation meaning "Ten thousand years"
    • Banzai charge or banzai attack, a last desperate military charge
  • Banzai (television show), a spoof of Japanese gameshows
    • Banzai (the DVD betting game), a DVD game based on the television show
  • Banzai (song), a 2004 single by Japanese duo B'z.
  • Banzai (The Lion King), a hyena character from the 1994 Disney animated film The Lion King
  • Buckaroo Banzai, a character from the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • The German edition of the Weekly Shonen Jump manga
  • The Banzai Drop is a professional wrestling move
  • 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).