The Karate Kid (1984)
Pat Morita: Miyagi
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Daniel : Hey, what kind of belt do you have?
Miyagi : Canvas. JC Penney, $3.98. You like?
Daniel : [laughs] No, I meant...
Miyagi : In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants.
[laughs; then, seriously]
Miyagi : Daniel-san...
[taps his head]
Miyagi : Karate here.
[taps his heart]
Miyagi : Karate here.
[points to his belt]
Miyagi : Karate never here. Understand?
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Daniel : Hey - you ever get into fights when you were a kid?
Miyagi : Huh - plenty.
Daniel : Yeah, but it wasn't like the problem I have, right?
Miyagi : Why? Fighting fighting. Same same.
Daniel : Yeah, but you knew karate.
Miyagi : Someone always know more.
Daniel : You mean there were times when you were scared to fight?
Miyagi : Always scare. Miyagi hate fighting.
Daniel : Yeah, but you like karate.
Miyagi : So?
Daniel : So, karate's fighting. You train to fight.
Miyagi : That what you think?
Daniel : [pondering] No.
Miyagi : Then why train?
Daniel : [thinks] So I won't have to fight.
Miyagi : [laughs] Miyagi have hope for you.
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[Daniel, Miyagi and Ali are trying to get onto the tournament floor together]
Official : Hold it!
Official : [to Ali] Sorry, teachers and students only.
Daniel : Oh, well, uh... he doesn't speak English and, uh, I can't understand his instructions without her. She's his, uh, translator.
Miyagi : [says something in Japanese]
Official : What did he say?
Ali : He says that, uh, you remind him of an uncle he has back in Tokyo.
Official : [smiles] I guess it's okay.
Miyagi : [says something in Japanese]
Official : What?
Ali : He says you're very kind.
Official : Thank you.
Miyagi : Welcome.
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Miyagi : Now, ready?
Daniel : Yeah, I guess so.
Miyagi : [sighs] Daniel-san, must talk.
[they both kneel]
Miyagi : Walk on road, hm? Walk right side, safe. Walk left side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later
[makes squish gesture]
Miyagi : get the squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no." You karate do "guess so,"
[makes squish gesture]
Miyagi : just like grape. Understand?
Daniel : Yeah, I understand.
Miyagi : Now, ready?
Daniel : Yeah, I'm ready.
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Miyagi : First, wash all car. Then wax. Wax on...
Daniel : Hey, why do I have to...?
Miyagi : Ah ah! Remember deal! No questions!
Daniel : Yeah, but...
Miyagi : Hai!
[makes circular gestures with each hand]
Miyagi : Wax on, right hand. Wax off, left hand. Wax on, wax off. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. Wax on, wax off. Don't forget to breathe, very important.
[walks away, still making circular motions with hands]
Miyagi : Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off.
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Miyagi : [Daniel is practicing karate moves while balancing on a fishing boat as Miyagi fishes] Make block. Left, right. Up, down. Side, side. Breathe in, breathe out. And no scare fish.
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Daniel : I can't believe this. I cannot believe this.
Miyagi : What?
Daniel : What you just got me into in there.
Miyagi : Huh?
Daniel : You said you were going to make things better for me.
Miyagi : But I did.
Daniel : How?
Miyagi : How? Just saved you two months beating.
Daniel : Oh great now I really have something to look forward to.
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Miyagi : Your friend, all karate student, eh?
Daniel : Friend? Oh, yeah, those guys.
Miyagi : Problem: attitude.
Daniel : No the problem is, I'm getting my ass kicked every other day, that's the problem.
Miyagi : Hai, because boys have bad attitude. Karate for defense only.
Daniel : That's not what these guys are taught.
Miyagi : Hai - can see. No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.
Daniel : Oh, great, that solves everything for me. I'll just go down to the school and straighten it out with the teacher, no problem.
Miyagi : Now use head for something other than target.
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[Daniel is about to have his first match in the tournament]
Daniel : All right, so what are the rules here?
Miyagi : Don't know. First time you, first time me.
Daniel : Well, I figured you knew about this stuff. I figured you went to these before. Oh great, I'm dead. I am dead. You told me you fought a lot.
Miyagi : For life, not for points.
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Kreese : [at the Cobra Kai dojo] Class, we have visitors. Fall in behind me. Hai!
[approaches Daniel and Miyagi, then speaks to Miyagi]
Kreese : I hear you jumped some of my students last night.
Miyagi : Afraid facts mixed up.
Kreese : You calling Mr. Lawrence a liar?
Miyagi : No call no one nothing.
Kreese : What are you here for, old man?
Miyagi : Come ask leave boy alone.
Kreese : What's the matter, the boy can't take care of his own problems?
Miyagi : One to one problem, yes. FIVE to one problem, too much ask anyone.
Kreese : Is that what's bothering you? The odds? Well, we can fix that. Feel like matching, Mr. Lawrence?
Johnny Lawrence : Yes, sensei!
Miyagi : No more fighting.
Kreese : This is a karate dojo, not a knitting class. You don't come into my dojo, drop a challenge and leave, old man. Now you get your boy on the mat, or you and I will have a major problem.
Miyagi : Too much advantage. Your dojo.
Kreese : Name a place.
Miyagi : Tournament.
Kreese : [laughs] You've got real nerve, old man. Real nerve. But I think we can accomodate you. Can't we, Mr. Lawrence?
Johnny Lawrence : Yes, sensei.
Kreese : Fall in.
[Johnny turns and leaves]
Miyagi : Ask one more small request.
Kreese : Make it fast.
Miyagi : Ask leave boy alone to train.
Kreese : You're a pushy little bastard, ain't ya? But I like that. I like that! All right. No one touches the prima donna until the tournament. Is that understood?
[class responds with "YES SENSEI!"]
Kreese : But if you don't show, it's open season on him... and you.
[they nod at each other]
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Miyagi : [teaching Daniel to punch, wearing a catcher's mask and pads] Daniel-san. Secret to punch, make the power of whole body fit inside one inch, here.
[points to Daniel's closed fist]
Miyagi : Power, whole body, one inch, here. Now, punch. Hard.
[Daniel punches Miyagi in the chest, weakly]
Miyagi : What'sa matter, you some kind of girl or something?
[makes punching gesture]
Miyagi : Punch! Drive a punch! Not just arm, whole body! Hip, leg, drive a punch! Make "kiai." Kiai! Kiai! Give you power. Now, try punch.
[Miyagi prompts, Daniel punches Miyagi harder]
Miyagi : Once more.
Miyagi , Daniel : [Miyagi prompts again, Daniel punches again, even harder] Kiai!
Miyagi : Once more.
Miyagi , Daniel : [prompt, punches again, harder] Kiai!
Miyagi , Daniel : [prompt, punch again] Kiai!
Miyagi : Very good, Daniel-san!
Miyagi , Daniel : [repeated action] Kiai! Kiai!
Daniel : [starts hopping] Hey, pretty good, huh? Kiai!
Daniel : [spinning arm, fancy footwork] Hey, look at this, Miyagi. Kiai!
Miyagi : Matte- mat-matte.
Daniel : [punching becoming less effective] Kiai! Kiai!
Miyagi : Wait-wait, Daniel-san.
Daniel : [mockingly punches Miyagi while continuing to bunny-hop] Kiai! Kiai!
Miyagi : [trying to get him to stop] Ch-ch-ch-chotto
Daniel : [dancing around very quickly and still playfully punching Miyagi] Hey, what do you think, Mr. Miyagi, huh?
Miyagi : [takes Daniel down by hooking his legs with his, then giving him a chop] I tell you what Miyagi think! I think you *dance around* too much! I think you *talk* too much! I think you not concentrate enough! Lots of work to be done! Tournament just around the corner! Come. Stand up! Now, ready. Concentrate. Focus power.
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Miyagi : [Miyagi returns from fishing as Daniel is painting the house] Oh, miss spot.
Daniel : What spot? Hey, how come you didn't tell me you were goin' fishing?
Miyagi : You not here when I go.
Daniel : Well, maybe I wanted to go, you ever think of that?
Miyagi : You karate training.
Daniel : I'm *what*? I'm bein' your goddamn *slave* is what I'm bein' here man, now c'mon we made a deal here!
Miyagi : So?
Daniel : So? So, you're supposed to teach and I'm supposed to learn! For 4 days I've been bustin' my ass, and haven't learned a goddamn thing!
Miyagi : You learn plenty.
Daniel : I learn plenty, yeah, I learned how to sand your decks maybe. I washed your car, paint your house, paint your fence. I learn plenty!
Miyagi : Ah, not everything is as seems...
Daniel : Oh, bullshit! I'm goin' home, man!
[Daniel turns to walk away]
Miyagi : Daniel-san! Daniel-san!
Daniel : What?
Miyagi : Come here.
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Miyagi : [Daniel has just gotten his driver's license and Miyagi has given him a car for his birthday] Just remember, license never replace eye, ear, and brain.
[notices Daniel has suddenly gotten quiet]
Miyagi : What matter?
Daniel : I'm just scared. The tournament and everything.
Miyagi : You remember lesson about balance?
Daniel : Yeah.
Miyagi : Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
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Miyagi : We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions.
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Miyagi : Oh, Daniel-san! You all wet behind ear!
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[Miyagi shows Daniel an old photo of his pregnant wife]
Miyagi : Daniel-san. Huh? Look, look. Hai, hai. Heh heh heh. First American-born Miyagi waiting to be born.
[Miyagi laughs proudly at the accomplishment as he pours more alcohol from a new bottle into his glass]
Miyagi : [claps Daniel on the shoulder] Drink, drink!
[Miyagi stands up, staggers, faces away from Daniel as if speaking to someone else]
Miyagi : [as commanding officer] "Sergeant Miyagi!"
Miyagi : [as self] Yes, sir! Sergeant Miyagi report to kill many jerry Germans, sir!
[Miyagi laughs, staggers toward the bed, and picks up an old telegram]
Miyagi : Sergeant Miyagi.
Miyagi : Yes, sir."
Miyagi : Regret to inform... wife have...
Miyagi : [starts crying] Complications at birth, sir. Complications. But no doctor come.
Miyagi : [groan of immense sorrow] Land of Free, Home of Brave.
Miyagi : [sobbing] No doctor come. No doctor come.
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Daniel : Oh, great, that solves everything for me. I'll just go down to the school and straighten it out with the teacher, no problem.
Miyagi : Now use head for something other than target.
Daniel : Hey, I was just kidding about that.
Miyagi : Why kidding?
Daniel : Because I'd get killed if I go down there.
Miyagi : Get killed anyway.
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Miyagi : [on Daniel's birthday, after having already given him a present] Go outside. Something show you.
Daniel : What?
Miyagi : Number two present.
[leads Daniel outside]
Daniel : [walking and talking] Number two present? You don't have to give me anything. You've given me enough already.
[Miyagi keeps walking, silently]
Daniel : No really, I'm serious.
Miyagi : [stops and points to his fleet of antique cars] Choose.
Daniel : [surprised and hesitant] Oh, no...
Miyagi : Hai! Hurt old man feeling.
[points again]
Miyagi : Choose.
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Miyagi : Wax on... wax off. Wax on... wax off.
Daniel : Is that all...?
[DELETED LINE, partly to himself and partly to Miyagi]
Daniel : Never had karate training like this before; sure wish I knew how it worked.
Miyagi : [DELETED LINE] You find out, Daniel-san; just give time. And no forget breathe! In through nose, out through mouth; very important.
Daniel : [DELETED LINE] At least I got something to look forward to.
Miyagi : [DELETED LINE] Always *much* look forward to. Come; less chit-chat, more wax, more breathe...! Very good, Daniel-san.
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[some drunks were drinking and setting their beer bottles on Mr. Miyagi's truck]
Miyagi : Excuse me, please. Boy cold. Must leave. Kindly remove bottles.
Yahoo at Beach : Kindly do it yourself, Mr. Moto.
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Miyagi : [repeated line to Daniel] Look eye!, always look eye!
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Miyagi : [Daniel walks into Mr.Myagi's house and sits right next to Mr.Myagi, who is actually drunk] Ah, Daniel-san, come inside! Come inside!
