Editing The Karate Kid (section)

===Filming===
Filming began on October 31, 1983,<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Daily Variety]] |date=November 4, 1983 |page=10 |title=Film Production Chart}}</ref> and wrapped on December 16.<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Daily Variety]] |date=December 19, 1983 |page=3 |title=Just For Variety |last=Archerd |first=Army|author-link=Army Archerd}}</ref>

The film's [[fight choreographer]] for the combat scenes was [[Pat E. Johnson]], a [[Tang Soo Do]] karate [[Black belt (martial arts)|black belt]] who had previously been featured in [[Bruce Lee]]'s American–[[Hong Kong martial arts film]] ''[[Enter the Dragon]]'' (1973) and worked with [[Chuck Norris]] at [[American Tang Soo Do]] martial arts schools. Johnson also makes an appearance as the referee in ''The Karate Kid''. Pat Morita's [[stunt double]] for Mr. Miyagi, [[Fumio Demura]], is also a karate black belt who had previously worked with Bruce Lee, who learnt some [[nunchaku]] techniques from Demura.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brandhuber |first1=Steph |title=20 Wild Details Behind The Making Of The Karate Kid |url=https://screenrant.com/karate-kid-movie-behind-scenes-details-making-trivia/ |website=[[Screen Rant]] |access-date=June 13, 2020 |date=September 5, 2018 |archive-date=June 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613061139/https://screenrant.com/karate-kid-movie-behind-scenes-details-making-trivia/ |url-status=live}}</ref>