Banzai

Banzai

Banzai may refer to:

  • A traditional Japanese exclamation meaning "Ten thousand years"
    • Banzai charge or banzai attack, a last, desperate military charge
  • Banzai! (album), a 1991 album by Tigertailz
  • Banzai Cliff, one of the sites of mass Japanese suicide on the island of Saipan during World War II
  • The Banzai Drop, a variation of the Seated senton professional wrestling move
  • Banzai (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • "Banzai" (Kaela Kimura song)
  • Banzai! (magazine), the German edition of the Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine
  • 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 (band), a French disco act
  • "Banzai" (song), a 2004 single by Japanese duo B'z
  • Banzai (television show), 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
  • Banzai Town, in Fujian, China
  • Banzaï, a French film
  • Buckaroo Banzai, a character from the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
  • Bonanza Banzai, a Hungarian pop band

See also


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  • Banzai! — Специализация: манга (сёнэн) Периодичность: ежемесячно Язык …   Википедия

  • Banzai — (jap. 万歳, dt. „zehntausend Jahre“) ist in Japan ein Hochruf, der Freude und Glück für 10.000 Jahre bringen soll. Ursprünglich wurde das Wort aus dem Chinesischen übernommen (Zehntausend Jahre) und zur Ehrung des Kaisers verwendet.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Banzai — Banzaï Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Banzai est un terme, une exclamation japonaise. Banzaï est un film français de 1983. Banzai est un film italien de 1997. Banzai est une méthode d… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Banzai — (japan.), die Aussprache zweier chines. Zeichen, die Zehntausend, d.i. viele Jahre, bedeuten. Ursprünglich nur für den Kaiser gebraucht (seijn banzai, gewöhnlich heika banzai, der Kaiser lebe viele Jahre), jetzt allgemeiner Ruf: »Lebe hoch«,… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Banzai — Ban zai , interj. [Jap. banzai, banzei, ten thousand years, forever.] Lit., May you live ten thousand years; used in salutation of the emperor and as a battle cry. [Japan] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • banzai — BANZÁI interj. viaţă lungă!, (zece mii de ani) trăiască! (< germ. banzai) Trimis de raduborza, 15.09.2007. Sursa: MDN …   Dicționar Român

  • banzai — Japanese war cry, 1893, lit. (may you live) ten thousand years, originally a greeting addressed to the emperor, from ban ten thousand + sai year …   Etymology dictionary

  • banzai — (izg. banzȁj) uzv. DEFINICIJA sport vojn. japanski usklik pobjede i oduševljenja, hura, živio, pri napadu u karateu, nekoć i u ratu ETIMOLOGIJA jap.: deset tisuća godina ≃ kin. wansui …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • banzai — ► EXCLAMATION ▪ a cry used by the Japanese when going into battle or in greeting their emperor. ► ADJECTIVE informal ▪ fierce and reckless. ORIGIN Japanese, ten thousand years (of life to you) …   English terms dictionary

  • banzai — [bän′zī′] interj. [Jpn < Sino Jpn ban, ten thousand + sai, year, age] used as a Japanese greeting, cheer, and battle cry …   English World dictionary

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