The Karate Kid, Part III (1989) on Netflix
Broke and deserted by his students, John Kreese asks army friend Terry Silver for help taking revenge on Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi. Silver hires karate champion Mike Barnes to fight Daniel.
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Plot summary
Back in Los Angeles from Okinawa, Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi find the South Seas apartments sold and demolished, so Miyagi has no job and Daniel has no home while his mother Lucille cares for an ill uncle in New Jersey. Daniel puts his college money into a bonsai shop for Miyagi and becomes his partner. He befriends Jessica Andrews, who works at her aunt Pat's pottery store across the street. Meanwhile, John Kreese, broke and abandoned by his students, asks his old army friend Terry Silver, now a wealthy businessman, for help getting even with Daniel and Miyagi. Silver sends Kreese to Tahiti and brings in national karate champion Mike Barnes to challenge Daniel at the All-Valley Tournament. Silver's men Dennis and Snake wreck Miyagi's shop and take his bonsai trees.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The original plot would have sent Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi to 16th century China in a dream to meet Miyagi's ancestors; Robert Mark Kamen envisioned the sequel as a Hong Kong-style wuxia film with a female protagonist.
- Thomas Ian Griffith plays Terry Silver as a Vietnam veteran roughly 20 years older than Daniel, yet in real life Griffith is actually four months younger than Ralph Macchio.
- Cinematographer James Crabe was forced to pull out of the film because the AIDS virus had made him severely ill, and was replaced by Steve Yaconelli; Crabe died on 2 May 1989 at the age of 57, and the film was dedicated to his memory.
- Where its two predecessors had each earned about $130 million, this sequel grossed only $38.9 million on a $12.5 million budget, a sharp box office decline for the franchise.
- The film was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, Worst Actor and Worst Supporting Actor.
