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...and interesting life. His early bio states he suffered from spinal tuberculosis as a child, and ended up in an internment camp during WWII. He was a versatile and character actor. Wax on, wax off.
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While going through some obit. articles on Pat Morita, I read about how he got the Karate Kid gig as kind of a fluke.Apparantly, the director wanted Toshiro Mifune (huge Japanese star of
samurai flicks, a "Japan's John Wayne") but Mifune wanted too much $. Pat Morita apparantly had to audition multiple times to get the gig.If Mifune played Mr. Miyagi, wouldn't that have been a little weird?
Sensei in the Karate Kid.
Even looking past the film's flaws, a terrific performance and an excellent lesson in the Martial Arts.
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