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Macchio says many of his memories revolve around the late Pat Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi Dave Hogan/Getty;Cindy Ord/Getty Ralph Macchio has fond memories of his 1984 hit film The Karate Kid.

On June 22, 1984, audiences were first introduced to Los Angeles' new kid, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), who learned both karate skills and lasting life lessons from the insightful Mr. Miyagi ...

Taking an amusingly formulaic “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach, Karate Kid: Legends echoes the plot of both the 1984 original and the 2010 Karate Kid films with its familiar underdog story ...

More than 40 years later, Ralph Macchio is still crane-kicking it as Daniel LaRusso, his character from The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai. In Karate Kid: Legends, Macchio's latest martial-arts movie, the ...

Is the Karate Kid gaining on his spiritual predecessor? The 1984 movie The Karate Kid was essentially a junior-level version of the underdog sports drama Rocky, even sharing director John G. Avildsen ...

The Karate Kid is one of the most iconic and generational coming-of-age stories of all time. So much so that it has spawned multiple sequels and even a massively successful television series, Cobra ...

TheKarate Kid universe is expanding with the upcoming release of Karate Kid: Legends. The movie sees a kung-fu prodigy, Li Fong (Ben Wang), become unexpectedly involved in the karate world when he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been decades since Macchio first played Daniel in 1984's The Karate Kid. Although his character was supposed to be 17, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Seeing how important Li Fong is to Mr. Han and Daniel's relationship to Miyagi — there's a parallel there," Macchio said in a ...