History Characters / TheKarateKidMiyagiDoAndAssociates

* SimpleYetAwesome: Miyagi's fighting style is waiting for the opponent to attack and countering their strikes with the amount of force he sees fit to give his opponent. Boring on paper but when used by someone with Mr. Miyagi's level of skill and experience, it is a sight to behold when even larger, younger and stronger opponents fall to the Miyagi's strikes. Notably, Mr. Miyagi never resorts to using any special or secret techniques against any of his opponents and has been able to defeat them with ordinary attacks.

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Definitely. Sure, like all humans he has his flaws, but he's willing to admit them and goes as far as to atone for his actions throughout ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII''. Overall, he's a wise mentor and the perfect father figure to Daniel [=LaRusso=] and Julie Pierce. It really shows when he doesn't take too much pride in his craft, unlike Daniel throughout the majority of ''Series/CobraKai.''

** Sato utterly loathed Master Kim Sun-Yung for his style of Tang Soo Do that espoused "no honor" and to strike with deception.

* TheAce: It's revealed that Chozen kept being trained by Sato after his defeat to Daniel in the second film. And unlike Daniel, Chozen dedicated his whole time to practice Miyagi-Do karate with no other business or family to worry about. By the time he and Daniel meet again 35 years later, Chozen has become a master of Miyagi-Do himself and proves to be a better fighter than Daniel, defeating him in a sparring match with little effort. Daniel eventually asks him to teach him, which Chozen gladly accepts. He also holds the distinction of being the only character to successfully land a hit on Miyagi onscreen (though he fought dirty, but still it's quite an achievement). [[spoiler:Season 5 cements this by having Chozen effortlessly defeat all six of Terry Silver's handpicked Cobra Kai senseis by himself ([[GodzillaThreshold in fact it was this that spurred him to contact Kim Da-Eun]]) and he even fought Terry in a one-on-one duel (with ''real weapons and while drunk'' no less) and proved himself the only one - besides Daniel and Mr. Miyagi himself - to be capable of matching him.]]
* AllYourPowersCombined: His training style mirrors both Daniel's TricksterMentor style and Johnny's TrainingFromHell, mixing both forms of training to effects that are arguably superior to both Johnny's and Daniel's. Demetri and Chris even comment that he he mixes the hardest parts of both.

* BigBad: In ''Part II''. While he was already the DragonInChief, after Sato pulls a HeelFaceTurn and disowns him Chozen becomes the lead villain, outright trying to ''murder'' Daniel in a fight to the death.

!!!'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/RogerCarel (European French, ''Part I'', ''Part II'' and ''The Next Karate Kid''), Creator/GerardHernandez (European French, ''Part III''), Magalhães Graça (Brazilian Portuguese, ''Part I'' and ''Part II''), Garcia Neto (Brazilian Portuguese, ''Part III''), Eleu Salvador (Brazilian Portuguese, ''Next''),

!!!'''Played by:''' Charlie Tanimoto
!!!Appearances: ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII''

* BusCrash: He is no longer around during the events of ''Cobra Kai'', having died in 2011 ([[TheCharacterDiedWithHim while his actor died in 2005]]).

--> This was one of the traits he had in common with his stunt actor, Fumio Demura.

** When Mike Barnes and his goons attack Daniel and his house in the third film, Miyagi shows up and makes them retreat immediately. Then he follows Daniel to the Cobra Kai dojo just to find Mike, Kreese and Terry Silver tormenting Daniel. Within ''one minute'', he knocks out Barnes by throwing him against a wall, outclasses Kreese in a direct fight, and humiliates Silver without breaking a sweet.

* GoodParents: By all accounts. His son certainly remembers him fondly and mourns for him deeply, and the fact that he fell in love with a girl bethroted to Sato, had to tun away and even fought in U.S. against the Japanese side doesn't seem to have changed his love for his son in the slightest.

* LongLived: Implied, given that his son is 60 when he dies.

** {{Justified}} as Chozen undoubtedly scared off any other potential suitors given his treatment of Daniel-san.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Nephew]]: After Chozen refuses to help Daniel save the bellringer girl during the storm, Sato disowns his nelhew for his cowardice: "Now to you, I am dead". [[spoiler:Subverted later when Chozen attacks Lumiko and Daniel, and a remorseful Sato pleads with him to give up and seek redemption, ans further subverted when it's revealed in ''Cobra Kai'' that after the events of ''Part II'', he kept his offer and helped Chozen get redemption for his actions]].

* Has a very strong, guttural voice that emphasizes his antagonistic status. [[spoiler:He loses most of it after his HeelFaceTurn]].

* OldMaster: He taught Miyagi, an OldMaster in his own right, everything he knows about karate, as well as Sato and presumably other pupils.
* UnnamedParent: His name is never revealed.

* CombatPragmatist: Chris may not welcome violence, but when he's in a bind, he doesn't hesitate to use whatever he can get his hands on, such as when he used a [[ThrowTheBookAtThem textbook]] to beat Mitch during the school brawl and grabbed a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] to smack Doug Rickenberger in the [=LaRusso=] house fight.

!!!'''Dubbed By:''' Creator/RogerCarel (European French, ''Part I'', ''Part II'' and ''The Next Karate Kid''), Creator/GerardHernandez (European French, ''Part III'')

* GutturalGrowler: A very strong one that emphasizes his antagonistic status. [[spoiler:He loses most of it after his HeelFaceTurn]].

[[AC:Students — The [=LaRusso=] Siblings]]

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The children of Daniel [=LaRusso=] who experience the wealth that Daniel never had growing up. Both of them join Miyagi-Do Karate under different circumstance: Sam was already previously taught the art under ''Mr. Miyagi'' but rejoins after a years long hiatus to help Daniel stop a resurgent Cobra Kai; Anthony on the other hand never had an interest in karate until pushing Kenny's buttons way too far to the point the latter turns to Cobra Kai and becomes his worst enemy.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: After four seasons of constantly irritating each other and having a pretty poor relationship, Season 5 shows that they do care for each other when Sam finds out that Anthony is being bullied and agrees to teach him karate to defend himself, while Anthony [[HeroWorshipper gushes]] over Sam's own fighting skills.
* BrainsAndBrawn: Anthony is easily the Brains to his sister’s Brawn in Season 5. Sam has far more combat experience than him, but Anthony’s the one who came up with the strategy to pass Chozen’s lesson and use his tech experience to expose Terry Silver.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: ''Both'' of them suffer from this, being responsible for creating their own ArchEnemy. Sam accuses Tory of stealing Amanda's wallet, looks down on her criminality, and pisses her off further by drunkenly kissing Miguel at Moon's party. Anthony on the other hand bullies Kenny to the point where the latter turns to Cobra Kai and uses his training to lash out on the former.
* SiblingYinYang: Sam is overall considered the golden child of the family while Anthony was basically left to his devices. Sam learned karate from a young age whereas Anthony only recently started training. Sam is very much an ActionGirl who is not afraid to throw down even against the likes of Kyler or Tory while Anthony favors the "thinking man's" approach with his karate training and would rather avoid getting into an actual fistfight.

* PutOnABus: Her activities after the events of ''Film/TheNextKarateKid'' are unknown outside of her continuing to implement Mr. Miyagi's teachings into her life, and WordOfGod has it that she was at his funeral and met the LaRussos there.

* PutOnABus: Her activities after the events of ''Film/TheNextKarateKid'' are unknown outside of her continuing to implement Mr. Miyagi's teachings into her life, and WordOfGod has it that she was at his funeral.

* {{Irony}}: Despite claiming that he's not good at teaching girls during ''Next'', he turns out to have more female on-screen students (Julie and Sam) than male students (Daniel).

* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: If Mr. Miyagi has any flaws, it's probably the fact he tends to underestimate the gravity of situations he's involved in across the movies. The fact Kreese has taught his students to be bullies capable of beating Daniel half to death while also being potentially dangerous to them himself clearly shocks the man. He's also genuinely heartbroken to discover Sato not only is still angry but fully intends to ''kill'' him.

* NoSell: The one time we actually see Miyagi take a hit, when Chozen hits him in the back with a spear in ''Part II'', he shrugs it off like it's absolutely nothing and proceeds to kick his ass.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Chozen is supposed to be around the same age as Daniel and Johnny (50's), but in real life, Yuji is actually ''63.'' Made even more jarring that he's '''three years older''' than the much YoungerThanTheyLook Thomas Ian Griffith, even though Terry Silver is supposed to be elderly compared to Chozen. Interestingly, out of all the actors who have played Daniel's rivals, Yuji Okumoto is the only one who is older than Creator/RalphMacchio.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The only time Miyagi drops his AsianSpeekeeEngrish act and referring to himself in third person is when he tries to reason with Sato.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Thinks Daniel is kind of ridiculous challenging him with Bonzai karate in the town where karate was invented. He’s grown out of this when he is reintroduced.

* BadassBoast: his response to Terry Silver when they meet.