Movie: The Karate Kid (1984)

“Daniel and his mother move from New Jersy to California. She has a wonderful new job but Daniel discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn’t fit into the blond surfer crowd, especially when he tries to date one of their girl friends. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights but is finally cornered by several who belong to the same karate school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating he sees Miyagi, the elderly gardner leap into the fray and save him by outfighting a half dozen teenagers. Miyagi and Daniel find the real motivator behind the boys’ violent attitude is the their karate teacher. Miyagi promises to teach Daniel to fight and arranges a fight at a karate contest some months off. When his training begins, Daniel can’t understand what he is being shown. Miyagi seems more interested in having Daniel paint fences and wax cars than teaching him Karate. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}”

  • Director: John G. Avildsen
  • Release Date: 22 June 1984 (USA)
  • Run Time: 126 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Drama

Tagline: Only the 'Old One' could teach him the secrets of the masters.

Trivia: The song Miyagi drunkenly sings during the “celebration” of his anniversary is actually fragments of an authentic Japanese folk song that Pat Morita often heard as a child.

Goofs: Miscellaneous: During the Halloween Dance Bobby and Tommy both have their hair coming out of the caps of their skeleton costumes. Tommy can be seen at the right dancing with a bunny with his hair out of his costume. Bobby has his hair showing when he goes into the bathroom to find Johnny. Before Johnny runs out of the bathroom you and see that they are fixing their caps to show no hair coming out. When they run after Daniel and fall on the floor Tommy’s hair is out of his costume again. After running and jumping a fence to catch up with Daniel their hair is back behind their costumes.

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