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Did Pat Morita Learn Martial Arts to Play Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid?

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Press, Lindsay. (2024-02-18). Did Pat Morita Learn Martial Arts to Play Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid?

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Pat Morita

1932 – 2005 · Isleton

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MovieWeb feature examining Pat Morita's martial arts background. States Morita had no karate experience before The Karate Kid, that the cast including Morita and Ralph Macchio was taught goju-ryu ('Okinawan classic') karate by Pat E. Johnson, and that Fumio Demura doubled Morita's fight scenes and inspired the Miyagi character.

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Accessed2026-08-24
Archived2026-04-22
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URLhttps://movieweb.com/the-karate-kid-pat-morita-learn-martial-arts-mr-miyagi/
Archived copyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20260422173008/https://movieweb.com/the-karate-kid-pat-morita-learn-martial-arts-mr-miyagi/

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Did Pat Morita Learn Martial Arts to Play Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid?. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M0TT32BH85XYXW7NWNM2TG3Y - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.

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