Banzai
title: "Banzai" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["japanese-language-surnames"] topic_path: "geography/japan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banzai" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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, 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
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