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  papa

  1 year ago

  This movie is hilarious. It looks dated, but I'll still sit in rapt attention if I'm even channel surfing late at night and come across this movie.
  
  I seem to remember that Pat Morita received an Oscar nomination for best-supporting actor. I wanted to confirm, so I checked the Academy Awards database, and sure enough, here's who was up for the 1985 awards in this category:
  
  ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
  Adolph Caesar -- A Soldier's Story {"Sgt. Waters"}
  John Malkovich -- Places in the Heart {"Mr. Will"}
  Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita -- The Karate Kid {"Miyagi"}
  Haing S. Ngor -- The Killing Fields {"Dith Pran"}
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  papa

  1 year ago

  [my message got cut off for some reason]
  
  Ralph Richardson -- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes {"The Sixth Earl of Greystoke"}
  
  Fortunately, this is the Pat Morita performance most know and remember and thankfully not that *other* performance (Do or Die) that you recently reviewed ;-)
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  webomatica

  1 year ago

  Good to point out that Pat Morita got the nomination - I wonder if he won, could his film career moved higher so he wouldn't have stooped to Do Or Die... ah well.
  
  One of the extras on the DVD mentions the drunk Miyagi scene nearly got cut - some suits thought it distracted from the main story.
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  papa

  1 year ago

  Oh sorry, the winner was Haing S. Ngor for the Killing Fields
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  okinawa

  1 month ago

  Ok, who doesn't like the Karate Kid? (Probably many) But, I would tend to disagree with the haters, this film is a classic and a great family movie...and their is a reason everyone knows what "wax on, wax off" means.
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