![]() It turns out that Miyagi is a karate master, a student not only of karate fighting but of the total philosophy of the martial arts. Miyagi, who seems to be a harmless old eccentric with a curious hobby: He tries to catch flies with chopsticks. Daniel tries to fight back, but this is a Southern California kid, and so of course he has a black belt in karate. When Daniel starts to date the former girlfriend of the toughest kid in the senior class, the kid starts pounding on Daniel's head on a regular basis. An old guy named Miyagi ( Pat Morita) is the Japanese janitor in their apartment building. ![]() ![]() A kid named Daniel ( Ralph Macchio) is a New Jersey teenager who moves with his mother to Los Angeles. "The Karate Kid" was one of the nice surprises of 1984 - an exciting, sweet-tempered, heart-warming story with one of the most interesting friendships in a long time. I took one look at the title and figured it was either (a) a sequel to Toenails of Vengeance, or (b) an adventure pitting Ricky Schroder against the Megaloth Man.
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