Banzai Reviews

Banzai is one of the strangest programmes I have ever seen and I would love to see it make a return, it is stranger than Takeshi Castle and the two share a distinctively Oriental flavour. It is one of those shows best watched with a group of friends and is a great complement to drinking games as basically it is a series of wacky events ...  Read the complete review

Who'd have thought that a Japanese themed interactive betting show named after a tree would take off? Well obviously directers Peter Boyd Maclean and Simon Toyne did. The first time I saw Banzai advertised on E4 I thought it would just be a show taking the micky out of the Japanese language and culture, and to a certain extent it does. But ...  Read the complete review

Back in the early days of E4, us digital viewers had every right to feel a bit smug. Here was this strangely brilliant Japanese-styled gambling gameshow - and it was ours, all ours! Those analogue folk couldn't watch it - ha! - but we could get our mates round and win stacks of pound coins off them. Times change, though. Banzai got ...  Read the complete review

BRINGING OUT THE STUDENT IN ME! Banzai has achieved an incredible thing. it has managed,apart from recreating a japanese style show with fabulous graphics, to bring together many of the stunts and bets that used to take place in my student digs. I am still deeply nostalgic about the drunken exploits of those job free work free booze filled ...  Read the complete review

BANZAIIII!!!!!!! If there is any justice in the world (and I know there certainly isn't much) Banzai will soon be recognized as one of the funniest, most original, and most purely entertaining comedy shows to have appeared on British television in decades. Not a smug suburban sitcom, or a lame and derivitive sketch show, Banzai is ...  Read the complete review

Banzai! I'll say this is the only good thing that has ever come out of Japan. (Apart form CD players, and the show 's makers actually come form Manchester) Anyone who doesn't like thsi show if they have watched it should be hung, drawn and quatered and have itching powder put down their trousers whilst this is happening to them. How ...  Read the complete review

Those crazy Japanese people eh?, they just love to do mad things and make television programs out of it don't they?, I mean look at Pokemon (oh that is so 1999), it was a success but it was mad, however now us adults have a Japanese program we can call our own - BANZAI!!! For those unsuspecting fools out there who don't know what ...  Read the complete review

'Banzai' which is shown on Channel 4 at 11pm on Fridays is fast becoming my favourite show.Originally commissioned for satellite channel E4 the show bills itself as 'new gaming opportunity'.The show is made up of a variety of small snippets with uncertain outcomes and our job as the viewer is to bet on our choices. The ...  Read the complete review

We British absolutely love to take the complete and utter mickey out of anyone from a country other than Britain. We do terrible impressions of the onion-loving, frog-leg eating French, the especially commercialy driven USA, and now Channel 4 take on the East and Japan, in the form of possibly the most bizarre TV programme ever to enter British ...  Read the complete review

What a blast! But why do I have to lose *SO MUCH*? I have watched it nigh on 5 times now, and I got my first wins last friday. Banzai is, in my opinion, the most dazzlingly addictive show ever. That Mr Shakehandsman certainly knows how to keep his grip. If you don't knwo what Banzai is, its a show full of short betting oportunities, ...  Read the complete review

What a refreshing change to see spomething completely different on TV. I have seen nothing like this game show come comedy programme since reeves and mortimer. For those of you who haven't seen it yet, you have to bet on the outcome of many different events, these include: Squirrel Fishing Trolley Duelling and ...  Read the complete review

Well, what the hell was that all about eh? Not since the early days of "Vic Reeves' Big Night Out" has such surreal, absurd nonsense made me laugh so heartily. I'm talking, of course, about "Banzai", which made its terrestrial TV debut on C4 last night. For those of you who missed it, the premise of ...  Read the complete review

Wow What a funny program this is. We couldn't believe our eyes when we flicked on to this channel...as you do...telly's crap,sat there bored,flick,flick,whats this? oh boring, flick, flick, whats this? two grannies in electric wheelchairs bombing down the street towards each other with their grannymobiles going flat out. Well you have ...  Read the complete review

This show, at some levels, is probably racist. Its production quality is low. It's repetitive, undeniably demeaning and unlikely to ever become more than a blip on the TV radar screen. And I love it. I don't know whether Banzai (which is on E4, sorry for omitting that the first time around) is, as the opening credits ...  Read the complete review

Banzai is a program on E4 late at night. It incorparates a few crazy Japanise people asking you your bet for the comming insane act of stupidity. The first time I watched Banzai I was asked "Fatty? or Fishy?" Before i knew what was going on a voice screamed at me "Bet NOW!" a few, what i presumed were Japanise letters ...  Read the complete review

Banzai. Even when I think about it now I giggle. For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have seen this hilarious program, it is a fast-moving, late-night gambling show on E4 (Channel 4's digital TV alter-ego) run by two Japanese men. Sounds great, eh?! But it is the events that are gambled on that make it so funny. Games ...  Read the complete review

In recent years the Far East, most notably Japan has provided the West with potential life-changing products. The huge electronics companies, such as Sony, Aiwa and the like, Sushi, and of course, Grampus Eight temporarily giving a home to Gary Lineker. Nowadays, Japanese influences will litter your home more than, er, litter. From a ...  Read the complete review

Banzai is bizarre, strangely compelling and one of the first truly interactive television shows. The appeal of the show can only be seen by experiencing it in its non-pc, laddish glory. The concept is simple. Each show offers a variety of opportunities to bet, and should you have the required interactive capability on your television you ...  Read the complete review

Banzai is one of the most original concept I have ever seen on TV and it is a great shame that it is only available on E4. The basic premise behind the show is that the presenter (A stereotypical Japanese host) Introducs's a number of different competitions and before the he shows the outcomes he gives the audience a chance to bet ...  Read the complete review