``The Karate Kid'' The best mentor movie where the mentor is more than the main character.

A semi-autobiographical youth drama from screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen.

The idea for ``The Karate Kid'' originally came from producer Jerry Weintraub, who saw a karate show on TV. A kid who was bullied at school desperately learns karate and earns a black belt. Weintraub is deeply moved by the boy's words, ``But we don't fight. It's pointless.'' This is going to be a movie!

Robert Mark Kamen, a screenwriter known for the `` Transporter '' and `` 96 Hours '' series, was immediately invited to work on the project. He once learned karate to protect himself from bullies. The first dojo he entered was a military-style place that taught martial arts as a tool for violence. It was probably a dojo like Cobra Kai, whose doctrine was "No Mercy." Keimen rebelled against this and knocked on the door of "Goju-ryu".

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"Goju-ryu" is a school of karate named in 1930, founded by Chojun Miyagi. Nicknamed ``Mr. Miyagi'' by those around him, he mixed the Naha-te he learned from Higaonna Kanryo with his own unique methods, and established what would later become one of the three major Okinawan karate styles. Yes, the name Mr. Miyagi comes from Chojun Miyagi. His direct disciple was Seikichi Toguchi.

Toshio Tamano, who studied under him, opened a dojo in New York, and Keimen trained every day as his student. Masakichi Toguchi is said to be the model for the mentor of Mr. Miyagi, who guides his students sometimes gently and sometimes harshly. The ``crane stance'' in which the main character Daniel (Ralph Macchio) spreads his arms is based on the ``white crane pattern'' devised by Toguchi.

``The Karate Kid'' is a semi-autobiographical youth drama written by Robert Mark Kamen. There is a lot of respect for Sensei Toguchi.

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