Cobra Kai
Warning : SPOILERS for Cobra Kai Season 6 , Part 2Cobra Kaiseason 6 ’s revelations about Mr. Miyagi ( Noriyuki " Pat " Morita ) in the Sekai Taikai gives young context to why Sato Toguchi ( Danny Kamekona ) shout him a coward inThe Karate Kid Part II . Daniel LaRusso ( Ralph Macchio ) was traumatise to discover that not only did Mr. Miyagi fight in theSekai Taikai tourney , but he also killed his opponent . Daniel - san is now question everything he ever bang about his sensei , andCobra Kaialso tacitly adds a seam to how Sato viewed Miyagi inThe Karate Kid Part II .
Primarily set in Okinawa , The Karate Kid Part IIintroduced Sato Toguchi as Mr. Miyagi ’s childhood friend - turned - enemy , as well as his nephew , Chozen Toguchi ( Yuji Okumoto ) , who became Daniel LaRusso ’s rival . Miyagi and Sato were good friends who were trained in Miyagi - Do karate by Miyagi ’s beginner ( Charlie Tanimoto ) . But both Sato and Miyagi were in love with Yukie ( Nobu McCarthy ) . Sato was engaged to Yukie by arranged marriage , butMiyagi left Okinawa rather than fight Sato to the death over honour . Cobra Kaiseason 6gives more info on what happened to Miyagi afterwards .
Cobra Kai Changes Why Sato Calls Miyagi A Coward In Karate Kid 2
Sato May Have Known About Miyagi In The Sekai Taikai
Cobra Kaiseason 6 ’s divine revelation that Mr. Miyagi(Brian Takahashi ) vote down his opponent in the Sekai Taikai help explicate why Sato was so disgusted by Mr. Miyagi and called him a"coward"inThe Karate Kid Part II.Sato may have known about Mr. Miyagi ’s natural process in the Sekai Taikai . Given what Miyagi did then , it helps underscore why Sato was so sickened and infuriate by Miyagi’s"cowardice"by refuse to fight him to the death inThe Karate Kid Part II .
Cobra Kai season 6 project the main crew head to Barcelona for the Sekai Taikai , where they look off against a new gang of fighters ( & their actors ) .
After all , if Mr. Miyagi already fought a gentleman to the last at the Sekai Taikai , Sato may have considered Miyagi a hypocrite . The elderMr . Miyagi did n’t want Daniel fighting in tournamentsand taught Daniel - san that karate was only for DoD and self - betterment . This was a philosophical system Miyagi developed partially because of his regret for what happened in the Sekai Taikai . However , the fact that Miyagi avoided Sato ’s challenge to fight to the death for 40 twelvemonth when he already killed a world once illuminates Sato ’s attitude toward Miyagi inThe Karate Kid Part II .
Sato Is A Missing Element In Cobra Kai’s Miyagi Story
Did Miyagi Really Avoid Sato For 40 Years?
Like Mr. Miyagi , Sato passed away beforeCobra Kaibegins . However , as more data about Mr. Miyagi ’s past comes to light , how Sato may have been linked or involved becomes an open enquiry . The Karate Kid Part IIestablished that Sato and Miyagi did not see each other between Miyagi leaving Okinawa in the 1940s and his return with Daniel LaRusso in 1985 . YetSato was a wealthy industrialist with connections , and , logically , he may have been keep rails of Mr. Miyagi all along .
Sato and Miyagi reconciled and become friends at the goal ofThe Karate Kid Part II .
Sato was also a Miyagi - Do sensei , and he would probably have known that Mr. Miyagi inscribe theinternational Sekai Taikai competitionrepresenting Miyagi - Do . Sato may even have been present to follow Miyagi fight and kill his opposer . If that ’s the case , Sato may have expected Miyagi to return to Okinawa to steady down their subject of award , and he would have been incensed that Miyagi never did so . Cobra Kaihasn’t addressed where Sato fit into Mr. Miyagi ’s revised life story , but Sato is one of the most intriguing doubt marks of Mr. Miyagi ’s yesteryear .
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