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

ten thousand years In various East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean as well as Vietnamese, the phrase "Wànsuì", "Banzai", "Manse", and "Vạn tuế", literally meaning "ten thousand years" is used to wish long life, and is typically translate ...

" of long life.

Arts and entertainment

Music

* Banzai, a French disco group; see

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

* ''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

Film and television

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Banzaï ''Banzaï'' is a 1983 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Coluche. Plot Michel Bernardin works at Planet Assistance, an organisation who helps out Frenchmen who are in trouble in foreign countries. Behind the scenes * The p ...

'', 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 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

* The Banzai Drop, a variation of the

Seated senton Strikes are offensive moves in professional wrestling, that can sometimes be used to set up an opponent for a hold or for a throw. There are a wide variety of strikes in pro wrestling, and many are known by several different names. Professional wre ...

professional wrestling move * ''Banzai!'' (magazine), the German edition of the ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' manga magazine *

Anime Banzai Anime Banzai is 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 Promot ...

, an anime convention in Utah, United States

People with the surname

*, Japanese general *Dr.

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

, a fictional movie character

Other uses

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 bilin ...

, a town in Pinghe County, Fujian, China *

Banzai charge Banzai charge 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 banzai, specificall ...

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 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 l ...

, 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 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 r ...

, a renowned

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...

surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitabl ...