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He has no real reason to at that point. During the first film, the issues were between Johnny and Daniel. The other members (Bobby, Tommy, Dutch, and Jimmy) were just following Johnny's lead. When the challenge was issued in the previous film, Kreese agreed to settle the differences at the tournament. There was no guarantee that Johnny and Daniel would ever fight in the tournament (Johnny could have been eliminated or, more likely, Daniel before they could face each other). Surprisingly, Daniel manages to make it to the semi finals, where Kreese decided to cheat and have Bobby hurt him. Bobby complied, (which was the reason Kreese didn't attack Bobby in the parking lot at first). Tommy, Jimmy, and Dutch were beaten by Daniel during the course of the tournament (where they could have been eliminated by anyone, like the one Cobra Kai Vidal is shown beating). That left Johnny to beat Daniel, bringing the entire challenge full circle. Kreese considered Johnny his top student and wanted these two to fight, so when Johnny lost he was disappointed in him. Also, notice that he never actually deals with any of Johnny's gang until he has Johnny in the chokehold. Bobby grabs Kreese's arm to try to help Johnny only to get elbowed in the chest. He strikes Tommy when he agreed with Mr Miyagi in trying to let Johnny go. Jimmy and Dutch never get involved and Kreese left them alone during the confrontation. The bottom line is that Kreese was upset with Johnny since he lost the challenge. It was always hyped up as Johnny versus Daniel and the outcome Kreese was hoping for didn't come to pass, even though Johnny came close to winning.

At the beginning of the film, Daniel and Ali have broken up (off-screen), with Daniel telling Mr. Miyagi that she wrecked his car and was now dating a football player from UCLA. However, in season 3 of Cobra Kai (2018), Ali gets to tell her side of the story. Daniel saw Ali hugging the football player (who was simply a friend of hers), and he mistook that for a romantic relationship. She also said that the brakes on the car were wearing out, and that she had warned Daniel of it, adding, "I hope you didn't tell him it was my fault that it crashed."

ALSO: It's because of the story, and setting. Being that it takes place in Okinawa, it would make no sense for Ali to travel with him. They're not a married couple, they're high school kids. Having a love interest where the movie takes place made more sense.

Mr Miyagi (Pat Morita) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), who is now living with Mr Miyagi while his mother is in Fresno on business, travel to Okinawa when Miyagi learns that his father is dying. Unfortunately, this means that Miyagi must confront old rival Sato (Danny Kamekona), now a rich businessman and karate master, and Yukie (Nobu McCarthy), the woman they fought over when they were 18 years old and the reason Miyagi left Okinawa. On top of that, Sato's number one student Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) has it out for Daniel.

The Karate Kid, Part II is a sequel to The Karate Kid (1984) (1984), which was based on a script by screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen, who also wrote the script for this movie. The Karate Kid, Part II is the second in a series of four Karate Kid movies, including The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, The Karate Kid Part III (1989) (1989), and The Next Karate Kid (1994) (1994). The Karate Kid movies have no relation to the DC Comics superhero also known as "Karate Kid".

Karate Kid II immediately follows Karate Kid as evidenced by a scene where Daniel, with his trophy in hand, and Mr Miyagi are just leaving the All-Valley Karate Tournament. They notice Cobra Kai sensei Kreese (Martin Kove) yelling at Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) for finishing second in the tournament. However, the movie then jumps six months into the future, the night of Daniel's senior prom, when Daniel learns that his mother is moving him to Fresno for two months (for her job), and his girlfriend Ali (from the first movie) has just smashed up his classic yellow car (given to him on his birthday by Mr Miyago in The Karate Kid) and informed him that she's fallen in love with some football player from UCLA.

No, it was filmed in Oahu, Hawaii.

Yes. In the first movie, Miyagi tells Daniel how his wife was placed in a Japanese internment camp during World War II while Miyagi went off to the fight in the war. His wife and child died there. Yukie is apparently a flame from his younger days, before he left Okinawa to come to America.

Floating lanterns is a traditional way of honoring the dearly departed in Japan. The practice is called "Toro Nagashi," and it's typically a part of the three days of the Obon Festival. The lanterns are usually decorated with symbols, flowers, and handwritten messages for the spirits that are said to return each year at this time to visit with the living. It is not unusual, however, for families to hold their own personal ceremony at a river close to home, as it was done for Miyagi's father.

That doesn't make a lot of sense, does it? A villager puts a pound of his carrots on Chozen's scale expecting to get 50 yen for them in return. Chozen balances the scale with a weight that reads one pound but actually weighs only half a pound, so he has to put another light weight on the scale in order to make it balance. The carrots weigh in at two pounds, so Chozen pays out 100 yen for the villager's one pound of carrots. Not a very profitable practice on Chozen's part. What makes more sense is that the lightweights are used when Chozen turns around and sells those carrots to another villager. He then puts on the scale a pound of carrots for which he's going to charge the villager 100 yen. Chozen then balances the scale with that lightweight that reads one pound but actually weighs only half a pound, so he has to put another lightweight on the scale in order to make it balance. The one pound of carrots is shown to weigh two pounds, so Chozen charges the villager 200 yen for them. In fact, if Chozen is really as shady as the film makes him out to be, he probably has a set of superweighted weights so that he can also cheat the villagers when he buys their produce, i.e., getting two pounds of carrots for the price of one.

Hand drum is one of the proper names for the type of hand-held drum that Daniel used. They are also sometimes referred to as monkey drums or pellet drums. In Japan, where they are considered children's toys, they are called den-den daiko. See a photo of them here.

No. The drum technique was made up for the film. It appears to involve a block by the leading hand and a strike from the trailing hand. As you turn to the right, for example, your right hand sweeps your opponent's hands from in front of him. Then, as you're still turning, your left hand delivers a strike which he can't defend against. Then you repeat this, turning to the left, but this time the left hand sweeps and blocks while the right hand strikes. It was a fictional move invented for the movie, like the crane kick was in the first movie.

Yukie asks Miyagi to take her with him, but the film ends before Miyagi and Daniel fly back to California. Whether or not Yukie accompanies him must wait to be answered in The Karate Kid Part III (1989) (1989).