The Karate Kid is a 1984 film about a troubled boy who, after being beaten by local bullies using karate, becomes a student of a mild-mannered handyman who also happens to be a karate master.
- Directed by John G. Avildsen. Written by Robert Mark Kamen.
Only the Old One could teach him the secrets of the masters. Taglines
Mr. Kesuke Miyagi
- Daniel-san, you much humor!
- Daniel-san, you look revenge that way you start by digging two grave!
- [repeated line to Daniel] Look eye! Always look eye!
- To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune.
- First learn balance. Balance good, karate good, everything good. Balance bad, might as well pack up, go home.
- [about Kreese's methods] That is not karate. That bad man teach bad things.
Dialogue
- Lucille: California, here we come! California...oh, what is the matter, Daniel? You don't like my singing?
- Daniel: I don't like the song, Ma.
- [Lucille halts her station wagon in front of apartment complex which will become the new Larusso residence]
- Lucille: This is it, Daniel, end of the line!
- Daniel: You're telling me.
- Lucille: Will you look at those palm trees? Damn Daniel! You know what this means?
- Daniel: Yeah. Watch out for falling coconuts.
- [Lucille unpacks the car while Daniel looks around new apartment complex]
- Freddy: Hey, are you new here?
- Daniel: Yeah, I came from Newark, New Jersey. My name's Daniel Larusso.
- Freddy: I'm Freddy Fernandez. Welcome to California. Offers a handshake to Daniel Hey, we were having an end-of-summer clambake on the beach tomorrow night, want to come?
- Daniel: Sure!
- [Daniel looks for an apartment, while passing a woman holding a small dog]
- Woman: This place is a dump. You should return to Newark!
- Daniel: How did you know I was from Newark?
- Woman: I overheard your conversation with Freddy. I'm a Jersey girl myself, from Parsippany. I never should have left.
- Daniel: Parsippany? I got an Uncle Louie from Parsippany!
- Woman: Louis Fontini?
- Daniel: No, Louie Larusso.
- Woman: Don't know him.
- Kreese: Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?
- Cobra Kai: No, Sensei!
- Kreese: Pain does not exist in this dojo, does it?
- Cobra Kai: No, Sensei!
- Kreese: Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?
- Cobra Kai: No, Sensei!
- Kreese: Prepare! What do we study here?
- Cobra Kai: The Way of the Fist, sir!
- Kreese: And what is that Way?
- Cobra Kai: Strike first, strike hard, no mercy, sir!
- Kreese: I can't hear you!
- Cobra Kai: Strike first, strike hard, no mercy, sir!
- Kreese: We do not train to be merciful here. Mercy is for the weak. Here, in the streets, in competition. A man confronts you, he is the enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy. What is the problem, Mr. Lawrence? [Johnny looks at Daniel and Mr. Miyagi; Kreese notices them.] Class, we have visitors. Fall in behind me.
- [Cobra Kai students assemble behind John Kreese, who approaches Daniel and Miyagi]
- Kreese: I hear you jumped some of my students last night.
- Mr. Miyagi: Afraid facts mixed up.
- Kreese: You calling Mr. Lawrence a liar?
- Mr. Miyagi: No call no one nothing.
- Kreese: What are you here for, old man?
- Mr. Miyagi: Come ask leave boy alone.
- Kreese: What's the matter? The boy can't take care of his own problems?
- Mr. Miyagi: One to one problem, yes. Five to one problem, too much to ask anyone.
- Kreese: Is that what's bothering you? The odds? Well, we can fix that. Feel like matching, Mr. Lawrence?
- Johnny: Yes, Sensei!
- Mr. Miyagi: No more fighting.
- Kreese: This is a karate dojo, not a knitting class! You don't come in here and drop a challenge and leave, old man. Now, you get the boy on the mat or else you and I are going to have a major problem.
- Mr. Miyagi: Too much advantage, your dojo.
- Kreese: Name a place.
- Mr. Miyagi: Tournament.
- Kreese: [chuckles] You've got real nerve old man, real nerve. But I think we can accommodate you. Can't we, Mr. Lawrence?
- Johnny: Yes, Sensei.
- Kreese: Fall in. (Johnny gets back in line)
- Mr. Miyagi: Ask one more small request.
- Kreese: Make it fast.
- Mr. Miyagi: Ask leave boy alone to train.
- Kreese: [chuckles] You're a pushy little bastard, ain't ya? But I like that. I like that! All right, no one touches the prima donna until the tournament. Is that understood?
- Cobra Kai: Yes, Sensei!
- Kreese: But if you don't show, then it's open season on him... and you.
- [Daniel is bicycling home when he is approached by the Cobra Gang on motorcycles]
- Dutch: Looking for a shortcut back to Newark, Daniel?
- Johnny: No, he wants to learn karate! Well, here's your first lesson: how to take a fall!
- Dutch: Don't think about the pain.
- [Cobras shove Daniel into a ravine then ride away laughing uproariously. Daniel trudges home then throws the bike in a dumpster. At the same time, Lucille returns to the apartment complex to witness Daniel's breakdown]
- Daniel: This damn bike. I hate this bike. I hate this frigging bike. Stupid bike.
- Lucille: Daniel! What's the matter?
- Daniel: NOTHING!
- Lucille: Why did you throw your bike away?
- Daniel: Because I felt like it, Mum.
- Lucille: Please look at me when I'm talking to you (sees Daniel's bruises) Oh my god! Can you tell me what's going on? And don't tell me about another bike accident!
- Daniel: What do you want to hear, ma?
- Lucille: The truth is-
- Daniel: No you don't want to hear the truth. All you want to hear is how great it is. Well, it may be great to you but it SUCKS for me! I hate this place! I HATE IT!! I just want to go home! Why can't we just go back home?
- Lucille: Listen to me, I cannot help you unless you tell me what's wrong!
- Daniel: I gotta take karate lessons.
- Lucille: You took karate!
- Daniel: No, not at the Y at a good school.
- Lucille: But, fighting doesn't solve anything Daniel.
- Daniel: Well, neither does palm trees, ma.
- Lucille: That's not fair!
- Daniel: Like it was fair coming over here without asking me how I felt about it. Right, that was really fair.
- Lucille: You're right. I should've asked.
- Daniel: Yeah, well, I just wanna go home. That's it. I don't understand the rules here and I want to go home.
- Lucille: Let's clean you up and maybe we can figure out the rules here together. What about your bike?
- Daniel: It's safer taking a bus. Why can't we just go home? Why can't we just go home and forget this place?
- [He and his mother go upstairs. Their argument was overheard by Mr. Miyagi, who emerges from his office, troubled over Daniel's problem]
- Daniel: How come you didn't tell me?
- Mr. Miyagi: Tell you what?
- Daniel: That you knew karate?
- Mr. Miyagi: You never ask?
- Daniel: Well, where did you learn it?
- Mr. Miyagi: Father.
- Daniel: But I thought he was a fisherman.
- Mr. Miyagi: In Okinawa, all Miyagi know two things: fish and karate. Karate come from China, sixteenth century, called te, "hand". Hundred year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call karate. "empty hand".
- Daniel: I always thought it came from Buddhist temples and stuff like that.
- Mr. Miyagi: You too much TV.
- Daniel: That what my mother tells me.
- Mr. Miyagi: Fighting always last answer to problem.
- Daniel: No offense, Mr Miyajee, but I don't think you understand my problem...
- Mr. Miyagi: [interrupting] Mi... ya... gi... understand problem perfect. Your friend, all karate student, eh?
- Daniel: Friend? Oh, yeah, those guys.
- Mr. Miyagi: Problem: attitude.
- Daniel: No the problem is, I'm getting my ass kicked every other day, that's the problem.
- Mr. Miyagi: Because boys have bad attitude. Karate for defense only.
- Daniel: That's not what these guys are taught.
- Mr. Miyagi: Hai - can see. No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.
- Daniel: Oh, great, that solves everything for me. I'll just go down to the school and straighten it out with the teacher, no problem.
- Mr. Miyagi: Now use head for something other than target Daniel-san.
- Daniel: I was only kidding.
- Mr. Miyagi: Why?
- Daniel: Because I'd get killed if I showed up there.
- Mr. Miyagi: Get killed anyway.
- Daniel: Would you go with me?
- Mr. Miyagi: No can do.
- Daniel: Why? You said it was a good idea.
- Mr. Miyagi: For you, good idea. For me, good idea no get involved.
- Daniel: But you're already involved.
- Mr. Miyagi: Very sorry.
- Daniel: Well thanks for nothing then! Thanks for nothing. Like I didn't have enough problems already. Now I gotta carry your weight too. Thanks. Don't do me any more favors pal alright?
- Mr. Miyagi: Daniel-san.
- Daniel: What?
- Mr. Miyagi: OK, I go.
- Daniel: Oh thanks! Thanks Mr. Miyajee.
- Mr. Miyagi: Miyagi.
- Daniel: Miyagi. Hey, what kind of belt do you have?
- Mr. Miyagi: Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like? [laughs]
- Daniel: No, I meant...
- Mr. Miyagi: In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants. [laughs; then, seriously] Daniel-san, karate here. [taps his head] Karate here. [taps his heart] Karate never here. [points to his belt] Understand?
- Daniel: I think so.
- Mr. Miyagi: Good night, Daniel-san.
- Daniel: Good night, Mr. Miyajee. Miyagi! Miyagi. Tomorrow morning?
- Mr. Miyagi: Ten o clock.
- Mr. Miyagi: Now, ready?
- Daniel: Yeah, I guess so.
- Mr. Miyagi: [sighs] Daniel-san, must talk. [they both kneel] Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later, [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes", or karate do "no". You karate do "guess so", [makes squish gesture] just like grape. Understand?
- Daniel: Yeah, I understand.
- Mr. Miyagi: Now, ready?
- Daniel: Yeah, I'm ready.
- Mr. Miyagi: First make sacred pact. I promise teach karate. That my part. You promise learn. I say, you do, no questions. That your part.
- Mr. Miyagi: First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
- Daniel: Hey, why do I have to...?
- Mr. Miyagi: Ah ah! Remember deal! No questions!
- Daniel: Yeah, but...
- Mr. Miyagi: Hai! [makes circular gestures with each hand] Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out of mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important. [walks away, still making circular motions with hands] Wax on... wax off. Wax on... wax off.
- Daniel: Hey where do these old cars come from?
- Mr. Miyagi: Detroit.
- Daniel: Wouldn't a fly swatter be easier?
- Mr. Miyagi: Man who catch fly with chopsticks accomplish anything.
- Daniel: Ever catch one?
- Mr. Miyagi: Not yet.
- Mr. Miyagi comes home from fishing and finds Daniel close to finishing painting his house.
- Mr. Miyagi: Oop. Miss spot.
- Daniel: What spot? Hey, how come you didn't tell me you were going fishing?
- Mr. Miyagi: You not here when I go.
- Daniel: Maybe I would've like to have gone. You ever think about that?
- Mr. Miyagi: You karate training.
- Daniel: I'm WHAT?! I'm being your goddamn slave man is what I'm being! Now we made a deal here.
- Mr. Miyagi: So?
- Daniel: So? So you're supposed to teach and I'm supposed to learn remember? For four days, I've been busting my ass and I haven't learned a goddamn thing!
- Mr. Miyagi: Hah, learn plenty!
- Daniel: I've learned plenty! I've learned how to sand your decks maybe! How about wash your cars, paint your house, paint your fence. I've learned plenty!
- Mr. Miyagi: Oh, Daniel-san not everything is as seems.
- Daniel: Oh bullshit! I'm going home man!
- Mr. Miyagi: Daniel-san! Daniel-san!!
- Daniel: What?
- Mr. Miyagi: Show me sand floor.
- Daniel: I can't move my arm, alright? [Mr. Miyagi claps then rubs his hands quickly] What are you doing? What? [Mr. Miyagi starts massaging Daniel's arm] Ow! Ow, what are you doing?
- Mr. Miyagi: Now show me sand floor.
- [Daniel's pain has been suppressed]
- Daniel: How did you do that?
- Mr. Miyagi: SHOW!
- Daniel: What were you doing on those stumps over there?
- Mr. Miyagi: Called crane technique.
- Daniel: Does it work?
- Mr. Miyagi: If do right, no can defense.
- Daniel: Could you teach me?
- Mr. Miyagi: First learn stand, then learn fly. Nature rule, Daniel-san, not mine.
- Daniel: Where did you learn it from?
- Mr. Miyagi: Father teach.
- Daniel: You must have had some father, man
- Mr. Miyagi: Oh, yes.
- Mr. Miyagi: Excuse me, please. Boy cold. Must leave. Kindly remove bottles.
- Drunk: Kindly do it yourself, Mr. Moto!
- [Miyagi karate-chops the tops of three beer bottles]
- Daniel: How did you do that? How did you do that?
- Mr. Miyagi: Don't know. First time.
- Mr. Miyagi: [on Daniel's birthday, after having already given him his present] Go outside. Something show you.
- Daniel: What?
- Mr. Miyagi: Number two present. [leads Daniel outside]
- Daniel: [walking and talking] Number two present? You don't have to give me anything. You've given me enough already. [Miyagi keeps walking, silently] No really, I'm serious.
- Mr. Miyagi: [stops and points to his fleet of antique cars] Choose.
- Daniel: [surprised and hesitant] Oh, no...
- Mr. Miyagi: Hai! Hurt old man feeling. [points again] Choose.
- Daniel: I'm just scared. You know, the tournament and everything...
- Mr. Miyagi: You remember lesson about balance?
- Daniel: Yeah.
- Mr. Miyagi: Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better.
- Daniel: You're the best friend I've ever had!
- Mr. Miyagi: You... pretty OK, too. Go, find balance. [chuckles]
- [Daniel starts to drive away]
- Mr. Miyagi: Banzai, Daniel-san!
- Daniel: Hey, banzai!
- Mr. Miyagi: [beat; then; louder] Banzai!
- Daniel: [louder] Banzai!
- Mr. Miyagi: [shouts] Banzai!
- Daniel: [shouts back] Banzai!
- Daniel, Mr. Miyagi and Ali go out onto tournament quadrangle, where they are stopped by an official.
- Official: Hold it. Only teachers and students on the competition floor. I'm sorry.
- Daniel: Oh, but he doesn't speak English and I can't understand his instructions without her. She's his translator.
- Mr. Miyagi says something unintelligible.
- Official: What did he say?
- Ali: He said you reminded him of an uncle of his in Tokyo.
- Official: [flattered] Well, I guess it is all right.
- Mr. Miyagi says something unintelligible.
- Official: What's that?
- Ali: He says you're very kind.
- Official: Thank you.
- Mr. Miyagi: Welcome.
- Kreese: Bobby, I want him out of commission.
- Bobby: But, Sensei, I can beat this guy.
- Kreese: I don't want him beaten.
- Bobby: But I'll be disqualified.
- Kreese: Out of commission.
- Kreese: [about Daniel's injured leg] Sweep the leg.
- [Johnny stares at him in shock]
- Kreese: Do you have a problem with that?
- Johnny: No, Sensei.
- Kreese: No mercy.
- Bobby: (to Dutch) Leave him (Daniel) alone man, he's had enough!
- Dutch: Shut up, Bobby!
- Bobby: Look at him, Dutch. He can't even stand up!
- Tommy: SO WHAT?!
- Dutch: THAT DON'T MEAN SQUAT!
- Bobby: Johnny? (still to Johnny and pointing at Johnny) Leave him (Daniel) alone, man, he's had enough!
- Johnny: I'll decide when he's had enough, man!
- Bobby: What is wrong with you, Johnny!
- Johnny: AN ENEMY DESERVES NO MERCY!
- Dutch: (to Johnny) RIGHT!
- Johnny: RIGHT?!
- Dutch: RIGHT!
- Bobby: (to Johnny, Tommy and Dutch) You're crazy, men!
- Score is tied 2-2. The next point will mean the end of the tournament. Daniel assumes the crane kick position. As Johnny advances, Daniel does the crane kick to his head.
- Referee: Winner!
- Ring Announcer: The new champion! Daniel Larusso!
- Audience cheers. Both Mrs. LaRusso and Ali rush out to the mat hug Daniel
- Lucille: Oh, Daniel!
- Ali: All right!
- [everyone hoists up Daniel; Johnny hands Daniel the trophy]
- Johnny: You're all right, Larusso, Good match!
- Daniel: Thanks a lot! [whoops] Hey! Hey, Mr. Miyagi! We did it, We did it! All right! [whoops victoriously]
- [Mr. Miyagi nods and smiles]
Taglines
- He taught him the secret to karate lies in the mind and heart. Not in the hands.
- Only the "Old One" could teach him the secrets of masters.
Cast
- Ralph Macchio - Daniel LaRusso
- Pat Morita - Mr. Kesuke Miyagi
- Elisabeth Shue - Ali Mills
- William Zabka - Johnny Lawrence
- Martin Kove - John Kreese
- Randee Heller - Lucille LaRusso
See also
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