I t has been 20 years since Karate Kid star Noriyuki “Pat” Morita passed away, but his former costar Ralph Macchio still thinks of him often. Macchio, who starred in The Karate Kid, its first ...

Pat Morita would do that, too. He’d do the great Miyagi drunk scene, tears in his eyes of losing his wife and child in the internment camps, and then we’d cut and he’d have a few fart jokes ...

He’s the soul of Miyagi-do, the wise Yoda that’s maybe not with us, but still with us. While Pat Morita had a varied career as an actor and comedian, it was his role as the kind Mr. Miyagi ...