Daniel's longtime mentor and father figure may be. Miyagi, died 15 years ago, leading Cobra Kai to acknowledge that Miyagi had died in-universe as well. We never could have possibly imagined we'd be doing this again. Actor Pat Morita, who played the iconic Mr. One thing about most of the guys on this list is that it’s likely that they. Miyagi gifts LaRusso with one of his classic carsa 1947 Ford Super Deluxe. Here are a few individuals that might be able to play Mr. "The first time I walked on set and saw Ralph, we hadn't seen each other in 30 years, and it was just surreal, just standing there and just looking at each other. Miyagi gave to LaRusso that reappears in Cobra Kai. “They created a world that I go, ‘wow,’ I just want to be a part of,” he said. This article contains SPOILERS for Cobra Kai Season Three. It was diminishing returns for the rest but. Griffith added that it was really the journey that Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg created that made the actor want to reprise the role of Terry Silver and be a part of the series. Morita played Mr Miyagi, the mild-mannered Japanese maintenance man/karate master in four films, beginning with 1984’s charming drama The Karate Kid. “It was nostalgic, but it was also irreverent and it was funny, and it was smart, and I thought they hit it out of the park.” “I tuned in, after I watched the pilot I ended up binging the entire first season, and loved it,” Griffith said.
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(Curtis Bond Baker/Netflix) Thomas Ian Griffith thought Cobra Kai was going to be a 'disaster'įor Griffith, he admitted to Yahoo Canada that when he first heard that the Cobra Kai series was being created, based on the movies, he thought it was going to be a “disaster,” but that changed after he watched the first season. When it came to incorporating The Karate Kid Part II ’s characters into Cobra Kai, Ralph. (L to R) William Zabka as Johnny Lawrence, Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso in Cobra Kai. at karate than the Cobra Kai students I promise to teach karate, said Mr. Miyagi ’s childhood home, Okinawa, in Season 3, and is reunited with two pivotal characters from 1986’s The Karate Kid Part II in the process, his old flame, Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita), and his old enemy, Chozen (Yuji Okumoto).