So, erm, Mr Miyagi has a first name and stuff – Kesuke apparently. I mean, it was probably said in there somewhere, I just never knew. As far as I know, it’s Mr Miyagi, thank you very much.
What’s more silly/amusing is that there is a Wikipedia page on the character of Mr Miyagi… seriously, click here.
It even has all the usual Wikipedia tomfoolery with citations needed and stuff.
I know this is probably a rather pointless post, but… doesn’t it strike anyone else as odd????
Bloginated Thursday, 8th October 2009 / Movies
Tag-isms: Mr Miyagi | Noriyuki "Pat" Morita | The Karate Kid | Wikipedia
A YouTube trio today of Mr Miyagi attacking using the power of awesomeness:
Bloginated Wednesday, 7th October 2009 / Movies
Tag-isms: awesomeness | Mr Miyagi | Noriyuki "Pat" Morita | The Karate Kid
This week on Gisoku Budo, inspired by the previous couple of posts, I will be focusing on nothing else but the awesomeness of Noriyuki “Pat” Morita and Mr Miyagi.
I was actually intending on writing this post yesterday, so luckily enough there will be two posts on his awesomeness made today to make up for that 🙂
For this one, I’d like to chuck across a link to a reproduction of an article written by Charles C. Goodin titled “Noriyuki Pat Morita: In the Footsteps of a Sensei” (source: issue #6, Spring 1996 of Furyu: The Budo Journal). The transcript has appeared on The Karate Kid Movie WebSite, and you can find it under “Cast” in the Karate Kid I Menu on the left-hand side – because he’s using frames and some java, I can’t link to the page directly. Head down about a third of the page and there’s a big block of orange text – it’s all in there, and there are some amazing insights into the movie, Morita and the character of Mr Miyagi as well.
Bloginated Wednesday, 7th October 2009 / Movies
Tag-isms: awesomeness | Mr Miyagi | Noriyuki "Pat" Morita | The Karate Kid
So Wifey and I are currently watching season 3 of Happy Days as she’s keen to get me to appreciate the series since she’s a fan. Being the very clever girl she is, she’s picked the series that introduces Arnold, aka Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, aka Mr Miyagi.
To say I had a crazy head spin and my brain had trouble dealing with the extreme awesomeness of the prospect of Mr Miyagi being a regular character on classic sitcom would be an understatement.
Or in short – Wifey is a very, very clever person 😀
Anywho, we were watching a random episode the other night, and Richie the crazy ‘ranga attends a martial arts class at Arnold’s (apparently it was ju jutsu, then became judo part way through the episode – go fig 😉 ) to learn martial arts, and bam, Noriyuki comes out and throws Richie over his shoulder. It was awesome. Never thought I’d see Mr Miyagi on Happy Days teaching some teens martial arts in a sitcom set in the 50s.
Thanks Wifey 😀 😀 😀
Bloginated Monday, 5th October 2009 / Movies
Tag-isms: Arnold's | Happy Days | ju jutsu | judo | Mr Miyagi | Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
