THE KAROCKY KID, PART II

THE KARATE KID, PART II(1986)
dir: Jon G. Avildsen

THE KAROCKY KID, PART II
MAD #268, January 1987
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres

Continues right where the previous movie left off, the first five minutes of credits tell the story of the first movie. (see yesterday's post)

At the end of the last movie Daniel (Ralph Macchio) won the competing tournament and the rival coach Mr. Kreese (Martin Kove) is angry his student Johnny (William Zabka), Daniel's opponent, came in second place, berating him and coming close to beating him in the parking lot. Daniel's mentor Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) intervenes, but does not actually hurt Mr. Kreese. Mr. Kreese hurts himself fighting back and Mr. Miyagi comes inches close to hitting Kresse, but just pretends to tweak his nose. Later. At heir house Danny is learning more karate through discipline by building a house, taught to pound in nails with one pound of the hammer (not with his bare hands like here). Mr. Miyagi gets a letter that his father is on his deathbed so he must return to his homeland in Japan.

As Mr. Miyagi embarks to Japan, Daniel shows up and comes with him. They arrive in Okinawa thinking they are being picked up by chauffeurs only to be taken by Sato (Danny Kamekona)'s family into a warehouse and met by him. Sato and Miyagi were childhood friends that were karate students under Miyagi's father. Both had intentions to marry Yukie (Nobu McCarthy) and agreed to settle it over a fight. (Not like she would have a say because it was the forties) Rather than fight, Miyagi moved to America. 45 years later, Sato wants to settle this. He now basically owns the town. Miyagi's father dies and Sato gives him three days to mourn and then they must fight.

Mr. Miyagi thinks the whole idea of fighting and honor is silly and would just leave again but stays because Sato is threatening to level the whole village. He agrees to fight on the condition that Sato give the land back to the villagers. Meanwhile, Daniel and Yukie's niece Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita) develop a romance and while going through the city end up in a tough bar where people place bets one whether anyone's tough enough break blocks of ice. Daniel is forced to break through six, an amount unheard of, but Mr. Miyagi shows up and gives him confidence.

A storm hits the town and everybody must run for cover in the one safe building. Sato is pinned under a wooden beam he practiced on at his dojo and Mr. Miyagi runs and gets him out from under it by breaking it in half. By saving Sato's life his honor is now restored and they are friends again. They all celebrate in the town castle. Kumiko is doing a ceremonial dance and Sato's nephew Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) swoops in and kidnaps her unless Daniel fights him, which he does and wins.

There were four Karate Kid movies in all, a reboot, and currently there's a TV series. MAD briefly spoofed the third one in MAD Video Reviews by Stan Hart and Sam Viviano in MAD #293, March 1990.