Banzai may refer to: * A traditional Japanese exclamation meaning "

ten thousand years In various East Asian languages such as Chinese language, Chinese, Japanese language, Japanese, Korean language, Korean, and Vietnamese language, Vietnamese, the phrase "Wànsuì", "Banzai", "Manse", and "Vạn tuế", respectively, meaning "myr ...

" of long life

Arts and entertainment

Music

* Banzai, a French disco group; see

Euro disco Eurodisco (also spelled as Euro disco) is a genre of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the middle 1970s, incorporating elements of pop and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere. Many Eurodisco compositions featur ...

* ''Banzai!'' (album), a 1991 album by Tigertailz * "Banzai" (Kaela Kimura song) * Bonnie Banzai, guitar player and singer in Swedish punkband

Asta Kask Asta Kask is a Swedish punk band from Töreboda, Sweden, founded in 1978. Asta Kask plays melodic punk music with Swedish lyrics; they are a foundational band for the musical subgenre known as trallpunk. The band have gained international reput ...

* ''Banzai'' (album), a 2017 album by

Gata Cattana Ana Isabel García Llorente (11 May 1991 – 2 March 2017), known as Gata Cattana and Ana Sforza, was a Spanish rapper, poet and feminist. In her career she managed to combine hip hop and electronic music with various themes and styles such as fe ...

* "Banzai", a song by Kevin Coyne from his 1982 album '' Politicz''

Film and television

* ''

Banzaï ''Banzaï'' is a 1983 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Coluche. The film was released in France on March 23, 1983. Plot Michel Bernardin works at Planet Assistance, an organisation who helps out Frenchmen who are in troubl ...

'', 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 Anime Banzai was an annual three-day anime convention held during October at the Davis Conference Center in Layton, Utah. The name of the convention roughly comes from the Japanese word for "hooray". The convention is organized by Utah Anime Prom ...

, an anime convention in Utah, United States

People with the surname

*, Japanese general *

Buckaroo Banzai ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'', often shortened to ''Buckaroo Banzai'', is a 1984 American adventure science fiction comedy film produced and directed by W. D. Richter and written by Earl Mac Rauch. It stars Pe ...

, a fictional movie character

Other uses

Banzai charge Banzai charge or Banzai attack () is the term that was used by the Allied forces of World War II to refer to Japanese human wave attacks and swarming staged by infantry units. This term came from the Japanese battle cry , and was shortened to ...

or ''banzai attack'', a last, desperate military charge *

Banzai Cliff Banzai Cliff is a historical site at the northern tip of Saipan island in the Northern Mariana Islands, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Towards the end of the Battle of Saipan in 1944, hundreds of Japanese civilians and soldiers (of the Imperial Ja ...

, one of the sites of mass Japanese suicide on the island of Saipan during World War II *

Banzai skydive Banzai skydiving is a rumored form of skydiving in which the skydiver throws their parachute out the airplane door, waits, and then jumps after it. To be successful, the skydiver must catch the parachute, secure it, and glide to the projected la ...

, 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 The Banzai Pipeline, or simply Pipeline or Pipe, is a surf reef break located in Hawaii, off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea on O'ahu's North Shore. A reef break is an area in the ocean where waves start to break once they reach the shallows of ...

, a renowned Hawaiian surfing location *

Banzai, Fujian Banzai () is a town in Pinghe County in the south of Fujian province, China. It lies on the Huashan River () about 40 minutes' drive from the county seat of Xiaoxi. Culture & Tourism The town is known as the boyhood home of 20th Century bilingu ...