Cobra Kai Season 3 Update: Sato Toguchi (Danny Kamekona) is now dead in Cobra Kai season 3, but the villain from The Karate Kid Part II has left a positive legacy behind. In The Karate Kid Part II, Sato’s one and only appearance were remarkable because he experienced a complete change of heart in the movie.
By the end of the day, he had lowered his dislike of Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki “Pat” Morita) and re-embraced his best friend, who left his nephew Chozen (Yuji Okumoto) as the evil man who sought to regain his honor to the death that Chozen had suffered by fighting Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio).
In Okinawa’s Tomi Village, Sato and Miyagi grew up as similar as brothers and both learned Miyagi-Do karate from Miyagi’s aunt. Yet Miyagi fell in love with Yukie (Nobu McCarthy) when they were adolescents, who were engaged to Sato in an arranged marriage.
To his reputation, Sato was so incensed by this insult that he challenged Miyagi to war to the death. Instead, when Miyagi’s father was dying, Miyagi left Okinawa for the United States where he remained away until 1985 when he returned along with Daniel.
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Daniel returned to Okinawa for the first time in over 30 years in Cobra Kai season 3, and he was surprised to see a very different Tomi Village, now a modern community, and Tomi Village Green, a premier shopping and entertainment venue is at its core.
Daniel expected to see the agrarian village he recalled in 1985, but he heard that the agricultural culture of the village had been affected by the drying up of their crops. By adopting a modern business model, Sato arrived at the rescue: shopping.
Sato gave the residents of Tomi Village work and rescued their city by building a 21st-century mall with movie theatres, high-end shops, and chain eateries like Baskin Robbins and Jersey Mike’s.
If Sato died before or after the death of Mr. Miyagi in 2011 is not clear, but he’s still dead now, and so is Yukie, according to her sister, Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita).
This means that their whole generation is now gone, but their legacies continue to have a positive effect on Daniel LaRusso, Chozen, and Kumiko, all of whom were friends in Season 3 of Cobra Kai.
