While The Karate Kidis an icon of 1980s cinema, its sequels have long held a far less desirable reputation. After Daniel LaRusso famously defeated Johnny Lawrence with the crane kick in the final ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Karate Kid: Legends opens this week, bringing together both the Karate Kid films of the '80s and the 2010 reboot -- which at one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been decades since Macchio first played Daniel in 1984's The Karate Kid. Although his character was supposed to be 17, the ...

“The Karate Kid” was initially released in 1984 and starred a young Ralph Macchio. Since then, there have been three sequels: “The Karate Kid Part II,” “The Karate Kid Part III,” and a remake ...

On June 22, 1984, audiences were first introduced to Los Angeles' new kid, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), who learned both karate skills and lasting life lessons from the insightful Mr. Miyagi ...

More than 40 years later, Ralph Macchio is still crane-kicking it as Daniel LaRusso, his character from The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai. In Karate Kid: Legends, Macchio's latest martial-arts movie, the ...