Banzai

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Banzai may refer to:

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

In arts and entertainment

In music

• Banzai! (album), a 1991 album by Tigertailz
• "Banzai" (Kaela Kimura song)
• "Banzai" (B'z song), 2004
• "Banzai Venus", a 2011 single by SKE48

In 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
• Buckaroo Banzai, a 1984 American science fiction comedy film

In other arts

• The Banzai Drop, a variation of the Seated senton professional wrestling move
• Banzai! (magazine), the German edition of the Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine
• Banzai Bill, an enemy from the Mario gaming franchise

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 mid fall, put it on, and deploy it before hitting the ground
• Banzai (town), in Pinghe County, Fujian, China
• Anime Banzai, an anime convention in Utah, United States

See also

• Bonsai (disambiguation)