List of The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai characters
This list of The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai characters reflects fictional characters from The Karate Kid franchise. Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg define the following works as canon: The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986), The Karate Kid Part III (1989), The Next Karate Kid (1994), and the Cobra Kai television series (2018–present).[1] The 2010 remake exists in an alternate universe.[2] Hurwitz clarified that the Karate Kid television series is not canon, but an easter egg from it appears in Season 3 of Cobra Kai.[3] A musical adaption of the franchise was announced in January 2020 and debuted in St. Louis in 2022.[4]
Overview
Miyagi-Verse
- An A indicates an appearance through pre-recorded material.
- An F indicates a performer stood in as a character's body-double for fight sequences.
- A Y indicates an actor or actress portrayed a younger version of their character.
Character | Films | Television series |
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Daniel LaRusso | Ralph Macchio | |
Mr. Miyagi | Noriyuki "Pat" Morita | Noriyuki "Pat" MoritaA |
Fumio DemuraF | ||
John Kreese | Martin Kove | Martin Kove |
Barrett CarnahanY | ||
John "Johnny" Lawrence | William Zabka | William Zabka |
Owen StoneY | ||
Thomas ParobekY | ||
Ali Mills | Elisabeth Shue | |
Lucille LaRusso | Randee Heller | |
Bobby Brown | Ron Thomas | |
Tommy | Rob Garrison | |
Dutch | Chad McQueen | Chad McQueenA |
Jimmy | Tony O'Dell | |
Mrs. Mills | Sharon Spelman | Deborah May |
Freddy Fernandez | Israel Juarbe | Israel JurabeA |
Sato Toguchi | Danny Kamekona | Danny KamekonaA |
Akihiro KitamuraY | ||
Chozen Toguchi | Yuji Okumoto | Yuji Okumoto |
Shigi OhtsuY | ||
Kumiko | Tamlyn Tomita | |
Yuna | Traci Toguchi | |
Terry Silver | Thomas Ian Griffith | Thomas Ian Griffith |
Nick MariniY | ||
Mike Barnes | Sean Kanan | |
Jessica Andrews | Robyn Lively | |
Amanda LaRusso | None | Courtney Henggeler |
Samantha "Sam" LaRusso | None | Mary Mouser Reese TinLeeY |
Anthony LaRusso | None | Griffin Santopietro |
Miguel Diaz | None | Xolo Maridueña |
Robert "Robby" Keene | None | Tanner Buchanan |
Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz | None | Jacob Bertrand |
Demetri Alexopoulos | None | Gianni Decenzo |
Carmen Diaz | None | Vanessa Rubio |
Tory Nichols | None | Peyton List |
Kenny Payne | None | Dallas Dupree Young |
List of characters
The Karate Kid (1984)
Character | Actor | Description |
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Daniel LaRusso | Ralph Macchio | The protagonist of The Karate Kid franchise. |
Mr. Miyagi | Pat Morita | A Karate master from Okinawa that served as a teacher for both Daniel LaRusso and Julie Pierce. |
Ali Mills | Elisabeth Shue | Daniel and Johnny's former high school girlfriend. |
Johnny Lawrence | William Zabka | The top student of the Cobra Kai dojo, being the two-time defending champion of the All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships and Daniel's high school rival. Protagonist of Cobra Kai |
John Kreese | Martin Kove | The main antagonist of The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai. Johnny's sensei and a co-founder of the Cobra Kai dojo. |
Lucille LaRusso | Randee Heller | Daniel's mother, a widow, and Amanda's mother-in-law. She was concerned with how Daniel was being harassed by Johnny and his gang. In Cobra Kai, she and Amanda have a troubled relationship later fixed by Lucille's granddaughter Samantha. |
Bobby Brown | Ron Thomas | Trained under John Kreese's dojo, Cobra Kai, and was later tasked to kick Daniel "out of commission" by injuring his knee. He later left Cobra Kai completely for his actions. In season two of Cobra Kai, he is a pastor. |
Tommy | Rob Garrison | A friend of Johnny and the third Cobra Kai member to be defeated by Daniel. Tommy later left Cobra Kai due to Kreese severely beating him up. In Cobra Kai, Tommy has brain damage and is terminally ill, so Johnny, Bobby and Jimmy take him on one last camping trip together, Tommy then admits to Johnny that he too had a crush on Ali years ago. In the morning, Johnny, Bobby and Jimmy discover that Tommy died peacefully in his sleep. The actor passed away in 2019. |
Jimmy | Tony O'Dell | A friend of Johnny and Cobra Kai student who's quiet and is the only brown belt in the group. He was a witness to Bobby injuring Daniel. In the second season of Cobra Kai, he is married with two sons. |
Dutch | Chad McQueen | A friend of Johnny and Cobra Kai student that bullies Daniel. He is the fourth person to be defeated by Daniel, and is a witness to Kreese assaulting Johnny for his second place win. In Cobra Kai, it was mentioned that Dutch was sentenced to prison at Lompoc Federal Penitentiary, after McQueen opted not to return, being committed to his racing company and no longer being interested in acting. |
Darryl Vidal | Himself | The fourth-place winner of the All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships tournament. He is the only person to shake hands with Johnny. Vidal was described in Cobra Kai as a third generation black belt. |
Freddy Fernandez | Israel Juarbe | A high school student and friend of Daniel. |
Susan | Juli Fields | Ali's best friend who dislikes Daniel and is later seen cheering for Daniel. |
Barbara | Dana Andersen | Ali's friend who, like Susan, dislikes Daniel at first but cheers him on later. |
Mr. Mills | William Bassett | Ali's father who talks with his daughter about going out with Daniel instead of Johnny. |
Mrs. Mills | Sharon Spelman | Ali's mother who silently judged Daniel. |
Deborah May | 30 years later in Cobra Kai, Ali's mother disapproves of the fact that Ali is getting a divorce. | |
Mrs. Milo | Frances Bay | A miserable old lady that lives in the same apartment building as Daniel. |
The Referee | Pat E. Johnson | The referee of the ring that appeared in the first three Karate Kid films. |
Jerry Robertson | Larry B. Scott | A student at the Cobra Kai dojo who is not a part of Johnny gang. He was the first Cobra Kai member defeated by Daniel in the 1984 All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships tournament. |
The Announcer | Bruce Malmuth | The announcer for the tournament who appeared in the first two Karate Kid films. |
Judy | ? | Daniel's first girlfriend when he was in New Jersey. In Season 2, Episode 1 of Cobra Kai, Daniel mentions that his mother moved him out of New Jersey to California where he met Ali. |
The Karate Kid Part II (1986)
Karate Kid actor Martin Kove briefly appeared as John Kreese in the beginning of the film. Additionally, Karate Kid actors Rob Garrison (Tommy), Ron Thomas (Bobby Brown), Tony O'Dell (Jimmy), and William Zabka (Johnny Lawrence) were in the movie.
Character | Actor | Description |
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Kumiko | Tamlyn Tomita | Briefly has a relationship with Daniel during his visit to Okinawa. |
Chozen Toguchi | Yuji Okumoto | The main antagonist for The Karate Kid Part II. He was one of Daniel's rivals and is short-tempered. |
Sato | Danny Kamekona | Chozen's uncle and Mr. Miyagi's former best friend. He was arranged to marry Yukie, but she had already fallen in love with Miyagi. In the third season of Cobra Kai, it was revealed that before he died, he matured, was respectful towards Mr. Miyagi, made Tomi Village a tourist attraction and reformed Chozen. |
Yukie | Nobu McCarthy | Mr. Miyagi's childhood girlfriend and Kumiko's aunt. Yukie and Sato were planned to marry each other, but Yukie in actuality loves Miyagi. This led to a death match between Sato and Miyagi, in which Miyagi decided to forfeit. In the third season of Cobra Kai, Yukie died and Kumiko had inherited her property. |
Yuna | Traci Toguchi | Young girl who lives at Tomi Village; saved by Daniel from a typhoon. Revealed in Cobra Kai as the Senior Vice President of Sales for Doyona International. |
Toshio | Joey Miyashima | Chozen's friends who helped to torment Daniel. |
Taro | Marc Hayashi | |
Miyagi Chōjun | Charlie Tanimoto | Miyagi's father; trained both Miyagi and Sato. |
Ichiro | Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad | Old villager that lives in Tomi Village; witness to Daniel's first confrontation with Chozen when Chozen is exposed as a fraud. |
The Karate Kid Part III (1989)
Karate Kid actors Randee Heller and Martin Kove briefly reprised their roles as Lucille LaRusso and John Kreese in the film.
Character | Actor | Description |
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Terry Silver | Thomas Ian Griffith | Main antagonist of The Karate Kid Part III and Cobra Kai. |
Mike Barnes | Sean Kanan | Secondary antagonist of The Karate Kid Part III. |
Jessica Andrews | Robyn Lively | Worked in her Aunt Pat's pottery shop; dated Daniel LaRusso. In Cobra Kai, it is revealed that she and Daniel stayed in touch and she introduced him to his future wife Amanda, who is her cousin. |
Snake | Jonathan Avildsen | Terry's henchmen who helps torment Daniel. |
Dennis | William Christopher Ford | Silver's henchmen who helps torment Daniel; a karate practitioner that rarely speaks, only having two lines in the entire film. |
Uncle Louie (Louie LaRusso Sr.) | Joseph V. Perry | Daniel's uncle and Lucille's brother-in-law; becomes ill. |
Milos | Jan Triska | Terry Silver's butler. |
Margaret | Diana Webster | Terry Silver's secretary. |
The Announcer | Rick Hurst | Announcer of the All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships tournament in The Karate Kid Part III. |
The Next Karate Kid (1994)
Karate Kid actor Ralph Macchio does not appear as Daniel LaRusso in this film.
Character | Actor | Description |
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Julie Pierce | Hilary Swank | Protagonist of The Next Karate Kid. Teenage girl who lost her parents, Susan and her unnamed father, now living with her paternal grandmother Louisa Pierce. Is a frequent victim to bullying; was taught karate for becoming violent. |
Lieutenant Jack Pierce | ? | Julie's late grandfather, husband of Louisa Pierce, father of Julie's unnamed father; officer with the 442nd Infantry Regiment (United States) during World War II; was taught karate as a message of thanks for saving Mr. Miyagi's life. |
Louisa Pierce | Constance Towers | Julie's grandmother, wife of Jack Pierce, mother of Julie's unnamed father; was sent away to Los Angeles to bond with Julie. |
Colonel Paul Dugan | Michael Ironside | Leads a JROTC-style program, Alpha Elite, at Julie's school. |
Eric McGowen | Chris Conrad | New student who joins Alpha Elite to someday be accepted into the Air Force Academy; bonds with Julie. |
Ned Randall | Michael Cavalieri | Skilled academy student and gang leader of the Alpha Elite; fought Eric. |
Charlie | Walton Goggins | One of Ned's friends; student of the Alpha Elite. |
Abbot | Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad | The monks. Abbot is the lead monk of the monastery. |
Tall Monk | Jim Ishida | |
Monk | Rodney Kageyama | |
Buddhist Monk | Seth Sakai | |
Senator Daniel Inouye | Himself | Made a cameo giving the opening speech at Arlington National Cemetery for a commendation for Japanese-Americans who fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.[5] |
Cobra Kai (2018–present): returning
Cobra Kai picks up 33 years after The Karate Kid, with the following characters that made a return: Daniel LaRusso, John Kreese, Johnny Lawrence, Lucille LaRusso, Ali Mills, Chozen Toguchi, Kumiko, Yuna, Terry Silver, Mike Barnes, and Jessica Andrews.
Cobra Kai: Season 1 (2018) introductions
Karate Kid actor Randee Heller reprised her role as Lucille LaRusso (Daniel's mother) in this season while Martin Kove reprised his role as John Kreese in the season finale.
Character | Actor | Description |
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Amanda LaRusso (Steiner) | Courtney Henggeler | Daniel's wife and co-owner of LaRusso Auto Group; Samantha and Anthony's mother. |
Miguel Diaz (Miggy) | Xolo Maridueña | Johnny's neighbor; 16-year-old Ecuadorian American teenager with asthma; was beaten up by bullies and later became the first student in Johnny's dojo; trains under both dojos, Daniel's and Johnny's; meets his father, Hector Salazar, in Season 5. |
Samantha LaRusso | Mary Mouser; Reese TinLee (child) | Daniel and Amanda's teenage daughter who was taught karate by her father at a young age; suspended from a school brawl for two weeks, then decides to restart Miyagi-Do. In Season 4, she trains under Johnny and Daniel's dojos; experiences an identity crisis after losing the All-Valley tournament. |
Anthony LaRusso (Ant) | Griffin Santopietro | Daniel and Amanda's son; Samantha's younger brother; sent to summer camp where he becomes more active; later exposes Terry Silver for bribing the tournament referee in Cobra Kai's favor. |
Louie LaRusso Jr | Bret Ernst | Daniel's cousin; works at LaRusso auto; torched Johnny's car with his biker buddies in revenge for defacing Daniel's billboard and disrepecting the family. |
Carmen Diaz | Vanessa Rubio | Miguel's mother; dated a British man named Graham; told Miguel that his father does not know who his own son is. |
Rosa Diaz (Yaya) | Rose Bianco | Miguel's grandmother and Carmen's mother. |
Robert Swayze "Robby" Keene | Tanner Buchanan | Johnny's 17 year old estranged teenage son; drops out of school when he gets in trouble for drugs before moving in with the LaRussos; expelled from West Valley High SChool for crippling Miguel at the end of the school brawl, later reconnecting with Johnny and joining with his father to find Miguel. |
Shannon Keene | Diora Baird | Johnny's ex-girlfriend and Robby's mother, alcoholic. |
Sid Weinberg | Ed Asner; Michael H. Cole (Young) | Johnny Lawrence's stepfather, retired film producer; funds the Cobra Kai dojo. |
Laura Lawrence | Candace Moon | Johnny Lawrence's mother and Robby's grandmother. |
Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz | Jacob Bertrand | Demetri's best friend and one of Miguel's high school friends; called Hawk because of his aggressive personality. |
Aisha Robinson | Nichole Brown | Samantha LaRusso's best childhood friend, later one of Miguel's friends in Cobra Kai; was transferred out of school after a brawl. |
Demetri Alexopoulos | Gianni Decenzo | Eli's childhood best friend and a member of Miguel's high school friend group. |
Bert | Owen Morgan | Diminutive junior student of Cobra Kai; fights Nathaniel but is taken away by one of the security guards; bullies Kenny Payne along with Nathaniel. |
Kyler Park | Joe Seo | High school boy of a wealthy Korean American family originally from Irvine. |
Lynn ("Homeless Lynn") | Susan Gallagher | Homeless woman who hangs around the strip mall. |
Tom Cole | David Shatraw | Owner of Cole's Autos on Van Nuys, a rival automotive dealership; |
Rhonda | Carole Kaboya | Sid's caregiver, who is a target of Sid's verbal abuse. |
Armand Zarkarian | Ken Davitian | Armenian American real estate tycoon. |
Roland Zakarian | Alex Huff | Armand's son. |
Cruz and Trey | Jeff Kaplan & Terayle Hill (respectively) | Robby's former friends who spend their time committing petty theft; both were sent to jail by the start of Season 3. |
Daryl | Keith Arthur Bolden | African American member of the All Valley Committee; announcer for the 2018 and 2019 All Valley Under-18 Karate Championships. |
Ron | Matt Lewis | President of the All Valley Committee; invites pop star Carrie Underwood as a guest performer for the All-Valley tournament before the qualifying matches. |
Sue | Cara AnnMarie | Only female member of the All Valley Committee. |
George | Kurt Yue | Asian American member of the All Valley Committee; close friend of Daniel. |
Xander Stone | Talin Chat | Represents Topanga Karate; 2017 All Valley Under-18 Karate Champion. |
Patricia Stone | Suehyla El-Attar | Xander's mother. |
Mrs. Jenkins | Linda Boston | Vice-Principal of North Hills High School. |
Mr. Palmer | ? | Science teacher at West Valley High School. |
Judy | Kylie Delre | Rich woman who gets into a heated argument with Johnny. |
Abe | Jayden Rivers | Cobra Kai students who later defected to Miyagi-Do karate. |
Frank | Cameron Markeles |
Cobra Kai: Season 2 (2019) introductions
Actors from The Karate Kid, Rob Garrison (Tommy), Ron Thomas (Bobby Brown), Tony O'Dell (Jimmy), and Randee Heller (Lucille LaRusso) made guest appearances during this season.
Character | Actor | Description |
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Tory Nichols | Peyton List | Athlete from a poor family; later expelled from school for causing a school brawl and was forced to take on a day job waitressing at a sushi restaurant to make ends meet. In Season 5, she dates Robby. |
Raymond "Stringray" Porter | Paul Walter Hauser | One of the Cobra Kai students, a cheater and a member of Hawk's gang. |
Chris | Khalil Everage | One of the Cobra Kai students, but then leaves to join Miyagi-Do. |
Mitch | Aedin Mincks | One of the Cobra Kai students, but gets kicked out by Kreese and then joins Eagle Fang, but then ends up defecting back to Cobra Kai. |
Sunny Mitchell | Kathleen Hogan | Host of the annual Valley Fest. |
Sandra Robinson | Kim Fields | Aisha's mother; boasts about how Cobra Kai changed her daughter's life for the better. |
Mrs. Moskowitz | Caroline Avery Granger | Seen in a flashback where she urges West Valley High over the phone to do something about the cyberbullying inflicted on her son, Eli about his facial deformity. |
Big Red | Christopher Ryan Lewis | Cobra Kai student; Lil Red's older brother. |
Lil Red | Shane Donovan Lewis | Cobra Kai student, then joins Miyagi-Do; Big Red's younger brother. |
Mikey Miller | Chris Schmidt Jr. | One of the Cobra Kai students and the second-in-command of Hawk's gang; supporting antagonist in Seasons 2 and 3; quits Cobra Kai. |
Graham | Alex Collins | British man who dates Carmen. |
Piper Elswith | Selah Austria | Moon's ex-girlfriend; joins Cobra Kai along with her teammates; inspired Sam to use her Eagle Fang training instead. |
Melissa | Gena Shaw | Woman who hits on Johnny at the bar; later spends time drinking with Johnny. |
Cutter | Stephan Jones | Construction worker who loans Johnny his cement mixer truck for the Cobra Kai students to manually rotate the drum as part of their strength training. |
Cobra Kai: Season 3 (2021) introductions
Actors from The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid II, Elisabeth Shue (Ali Mills), Ron Thomas (Bobby Brown), Tamlyn Tomita (Kumiko), Traci Toguchi (Yuna), and Yuji Okumoto (Chozen Toguchi) all made guest appearances during this season.
Character | Actor | Description |
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Shawn Payne | Okea Eme-Akwari | Juvenile detainee at Sylmar Juvenile Corrections. |
Rodney | Grayson Berry | Tory's apartment complex landlord; harasses Tory for rent. |
David | Jesse Kove | College varsity captain in 1965; enlisted for the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, but chose to bully John Kreese throughout high school. |
Betsy | Emily Marie Palmer | Kreese's girlfriend from his youth; originally David's girlfriend; her death causes Kreese to become devastated. |
Captain Turner | Terry Serpico | Kreese's commanding officer during the Vietnam War; taught his team his style of self-defense which would become the foundation of Cobra Kai karate. |
Ponytail | Seth Kemp | One of John Kreese's old Vietnam buddies; shot dead by the Vietcong. |
Councilperson Roberts | Zele Avradopoulos | City councilmember who wanted to ban the All-Valley Under 18 Tournament due to the aftermath of the school brawl; made a compromise that students must sign a waiver. |
Dee Snider | Himself | In Cobra Kai, he is a heavy metal singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the band Twisted Sister; Miguel went through security to go to one of his concerts.[6] |
Cobra Kai: Season 4 (2021) introductions
Thomas Ian Griffith reprised his role as Terry Silver from The Karate Kid III, and actors from The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid II, Yuji Okumoto (Chozen Toguchi) and Randee Heller (Lucille LaRusso), made guest appearances.
Character | Actor | Description |
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Kenny Payne | Dallas Dupree Young | Youngest son of U.S. Army soldier stationed in Qatar and younger brother of Shawn Payne; in Season 5, he becomes one of the top students behind Tory in Silver's Cobra Kai. |
Devon Lee | Oona O'Brien | Student and member of the debate team at West Valley High School; abandoned Cobra Kai after being disqualified due to a bribery with the referee. |
Kandace | Rebecca Lines | Tory's maternal aunt. |
Lia Cabrera | Milena Rivero | Student at West Valley Middle School, childhood friend and crush of Anthony LaRusso. |
Charlotte | Phoebe French | One of Terry Silver's newly recruited female students who joins Cobra Kai. |
Lindsey | Gianna Graziano | Another female student recruited by Terry Silver alongside Charlotte and Piper Elswith. |
Cheyenne Hamidi | Salome Azizi | Terry Silver's girlfriend; app developer. |
Vanessa LaRusso | Julia Macchio | Louie LaRusso's sister, Daniel's cousin, second year graduate student in child psychology. |
Zack Thompson | Brock Duncan | Student at West Valley Middle School, one of Anthony's friends; suspended from school because of bullying Kenny. |
Greg Hughes | P.J. Byrne | Stingray's next door neighbor; later beaten up by Stingray for Greg pointing out Stingray's underage drinking. |
Slade Wang | Alex Boyer | Student at West Valley Middle School; member of Anthony's gang who helps Anthony catfish Kenny; later suspended along with his friends. |
Marcus | Jaden Labady | Member of Anthony's gang who helps him bully Kenny at school; eventually suspended. |
Carrie Underwood | Herself | In Cobra Kai, she is a multi-Grammy Award-winning country pop singer who is invited by Ron to the 51st All-Valley Karate Tournament. |
Cobra Kai: Season 5 (2022) introductions
Sean Kanan and Robyn Lively reprised their roles as Mike Barnes and Jessica Andrews from The Karate Kid III,
Character | Actor | Description |
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Hector Salazar | Luis Roberto Guzmán | Miguel’s biological father and a criminal in Mexico. |
Joanne | Rachelle Carson-Begley | Amanda’s mother who lives in Ohio and who divorced her husband after he cheated on her. She supports Amanda when she has a difficult moment in her marriage. |
Elizabeth-Anne Rooney | Sunny Mabrey | Rival and former classmate of Amanda and Jessica. |
Kim Da-Eun | Alicia Hannah-Kim | Granddaughter of Kim Sun-Yung and summoned to the USA by Terry Silver |
Kim Sun-Yung | Don L. Lee; flashback | South Korean sensei who was a master of Tang Soo Do karate during the Korean War; built the philosophy of the Cobra Kai dojo: "Strike first, strike hard, no mercy." |
Gunther Braun | Carsten Norgaard | German representative for the Sekai Taikai karate tournament. |
Gabriel | Owen Ham | Criminal who beats up John Kreese in the prison; implied to have helped Kreese fake his death and escape prison. |
Sensei Odell | Tyron Woodley | One of Kim Da-eun's six hired senseis. |
Dr. Emily Folsom | Tracey Bonner | Psychiatrist at John Kreese's prison; Kreese used her keycard to escape prison. |
Additional adaptations
The Karate Kid (1989 animated series)
The animated series had different voice actors for the following characters: Joey Dedio as Daniel LaRusso, Robert Ito as Mr. Miyagi, and Janice Kawaye as Taki Tamurai.
The Karate Kid (2010)
Jon Hurwitz stated in a Twitter post that the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid is in an alternate universe.[2]
Character | Actor | Description |
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Dre Parker | Jaden Smith | Goes into training for self-defense after being bullied; later wins in the Open Kung Fu Tournament. Moved from Detroit, Michigan, to Beijing, China. |
Mr. Han | Jackie Chan | Chinese maintenance man who becomes Dre's Shifu; lost his wife and son to a car crash. |
Sherry Parker | Taraji P. Henson | Mother of Dre Parker. |
Cheng | Zhenwei Wang | Main antagonist; Dre's arch rival; top student at the Fighting Dragon studio run by Master Li. |
Meiying | Wenwen Han | Dre's love interest, violin player; her parents deem Dre to be a bad influence, but Dre rehearses a written apology to Meiying's father in which he asks for forgiveness. |
Liang | Shijia Lü | One of Cheng's friends, second-best student at the Fighting Dragons studio; disqualified due to injuring Dre's leg. |
Master Li | Yu Rongguang | Cheng's Kung Fu instructor; instructs Liang to deliver an illegal strike to Dre's leg. |
Broadway
In January 2020, a Broadway musical adaptation of The Karate Kid was revealed to be in development. Amon Miyamoto served as the director, with an accompanying novel being written by the original film's screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. Drew Gasparini is the lyricist and composer of the score, while Keone and Mari Madrid choreographed the play. Kumiko Yoshii and Michael Wolk will serve as producers, with The Kinoshita Group. The cast will include Jovanni Sy as Mr. Miyagi, John Cardoza as Daniel LaRusso, Kate Baldwin as Lucille LaRusso, Alan H. Green as John Kreese, Jake Bentley Young as Johnny Lawrence, Jetta Juriansz as Ali Mills, and Luis-Pablo Garcia as Freddie Fernandez.[7] The adaption debuted in St. Louis in June 2022.[4]
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