The Karate Kid

“He taught him the secret to karate lies in the mind and heart. Not in the hands.”

Daniel (Ralph Macchio) is a New Jersey teenager who moves with his mother to Los Angeles, where he knows no one and gets beaten up by the local karate kids. The only person who helps is Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), the quiet repairman in his apartment complex, who turns out to be a martial arts master. John G. Avildsen lets Daniel and Miyagi grow close through chores and small silences, and the old man becomes the nearest thing Daniel has to a father.