When the original Karate Kid boys aren’t doing whatever the hell they do in their personal lives nowadays, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) train students in karate.

As an ’80s kid living overseas and gaining a window into American culture mainly through its movie and TV offerings, “The Karate Kid” gave me a severely distorted view of the importance of karate in ...

Alyssa De Leo is a freelance writer based in Melbourne, Australia. She has studied both media and screenwriting, and has had her work screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival. She loves ...

The Karate Kid is one of the most iconic and generational coming-of-age stories of all time. So much so that it has spawned multiple sequels and even a massively successful television series, Cobra ...