On Thanksgiving day last week (November 24th) the actor Pat Morita died. ‘The Karate Kid’s’ Mr. Miyagi, the humble and funny karate instructor played by Pat Morita, is well known even among kids who weren’t around when the series of four ‘Karate Kid’ movies was produced.
When I think of Mr. Miyagi, I daydream of the old-school Sensei, where humbleness and tradition and hard work mean everything! Tonight, four days later, Pat Morita’s death still bothers me.
Well, today I remembered that I had the pleasure to train under Pat Morita’s stunt-double from those karate movies. I briefly wrote about that here.
I mean, I know that Mr. Morita had no formal karate training before the movies. He played other characters (I’m only slightly familiar with Arnold from ‘Happy Days.’) But to me, and to probably alot of other people, he’ll always be the humble and funny karate Sensei.