Ralph Macchio Revealed The Wild Story Behind One Of "The Karate Kid Part II"'s Biggest Stunts — And 8 More Behind-The-Scenes Memories

Ralph: One of my treasured relationships, too with Pat Morita, is with Tamlyn Tomita, who played Kumiko. 

As the years went on, I felt determination was much communicative for Daniel and Kumiko. It's peculiar to maine personally due to the fact that Tamlyn is specified a bully friend, and creatively due to the fact that those characters person this innocent, honest, beauteous emotion story. 

People to this time inquire me, "Who bash you deliberation Daniel LaRusso should person coiled up with?" Taking thing distant from the Cobra Kai journey and my large relationship and originative enactment with Courtney Henggeler, who portrayed Daniel's woman truthful perfectly successful the series, I ever felt it made the astir consciousness that Daniel and Kumiko would upwind up together. 

When they made Part III, the conception was "let's get backmost to the valley." I ever questioned however they could permission Okinawa, Yukie, and Kumiko behind. Fortunately, successful Cobra Kai, we got to weave those characters backmost in.