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Avildsen shot hours of footage of the tournament from multiple angles
Story
Decades after their 1984 All Valley karate tournament match, a middle-aged Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence find themselves once again as martial arts rivals. During the original filming of The Karate Kid, the late director John G. The team behind Cobra Kai searched the studio’s vault and found tons of previously unseen footage that they were able to introduce into the series through flashbacks.
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One of them includes Zabka’s mother, who was in the stands in various angles that were not seen until 2018. Many people believe that Miyagi’s name on the tombstone is a continuity error, as in Karate Kid 4 (1994) his name is Keisuke, but it was actually previously shown on a sign that Chozen was holding in Karate Kid 2 (1986) to be Nariyoshi. This means that The Next Karate Kid was the one who changed his name, while Cobra Kai kept the name previously given to him.
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Another interesting fact, however, is that the name given in The Karate Kid Part II was not his original given name. Miyagi. In The Karate Kid (1984), it can be seen briefly on Miyagi’s tags attached to the 1948 Ford keys given to Daniel for his birthday that Miyagi’s first name is Hideo.
I’m glad I was wrong
Cobra Kai is way better than I thought it would be. I grew up a Karate Kid fan but wasn’t sure what to expect from this and thought it would be some cheap kid money. That’s way better than any business being, especially William Zabka!
You choose Daniel (Ralph Macchio) more
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