Word: banzai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION...
...first major Japanese paper to run a full list of radio programs and later formed Japan's first commercial TV network. Shoriki's most enduring brainchild was baseball, which he helped popularize. Says one Yomiuri official: "Each time the Giants win, our readers yell 'Banzai!' while watching them over our NTV, and again when reading about them in our paper...
When the project is completed in three years, the 33.3-mile Seikan tube will be the world's longest underwater tunnel. But while construction workers last week shouted "Banzai!" and broke out sake, other Japanese wondered why. In fact, Yomiuri, Tokyo's biggest newspaper, dismissed the tunnel as "a white elephant...
...fight to the death for possession of those swords. Life, it would seem, is cheap in the mystic East, at least when an Occidental director like John Frankenheimer invades Japan to make a martial-arts movie. Glenn and Mifune invade the industrial fortress of Mifune's brother and, banzai! 23 men are dead of arrow, sword, spike and gunshot wounds. Honor is all, death is nothing-except the excuse for some spectacular carnage...
...Banzai...