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Now, to you, I am dead!
~ Sato Toguchi disowning his nephew, Chozen.

Sato Toguchi (in Japanese: 佐藤 Satō) is the overarching antagonist of The Karate Kid Part II and a minor character in Season 5 of Cobra Kai.

He is the uncle of Chozen Toguchi and a spiteful yet honorable martial artist and businessman, being Mr. Miyagi’s best friend and his archenemy for a few years before letting go of his old grudges and eventually even helping his nephew do the same.

He was portrayed by the late Danny Kamekona in The Karate Kid Part II and Akihiro Kitamura as young Sato in Cobra Kai.

Biography[]

During their childhoods, Miyagi and Sato had a strong brotherly friendship. Their friendship was so strong that Miyagi even asked his father to teach karate to both him and Sato, which Miyagi's father agreed to (even though traditionally it had only been taught from father to son).

However, when the two grew older, Sato had been arranged to marry a girl named Yukie. Although Yukie was arranged to marry Sato, she had instead fallen in love with Miyagi. Their love for one another was so strong that Miyagi had announced that he would break the tradition of arranged marriage and marry Yukie anyway. Sato, however, felt disgraced and challenged Miyagi to a fight to save his honor. But Miyagi left Okinawa, Japan the next day.

In 1972 while teaching a class Sato catches Chozen cheating during class; he berates him, saying that a man without honor is no man at all.

Sato also had a rivalry with Kim Sun-Yung as his methods were controversial which angered him for unknown reasons.

When Miyagi returned to Tome village with Daniel years later, Sato had become a rich industrialist and had been eager to face his old friend in a death match. However, on the day he intended to fight Miyagi his father who was also sato's teacher dies. Moments before his death, he tries to tell them to forgive each other, which they did not understand at the time. After his death Sato gives Miyagi three days to mourn his father out of respect for his teacher and threatens to tear down the village if he refuses.

Miyagi, seeing no way around it reluctantly agrees to the fight. However, on the day of the fight, a typhoon strikes the village, forcing everyone to seek shelter. Sato's dojo collapses, leaving him trapped in the wreckage. Miyagi and Daniel rush to rescue him, and Daniel later ventures back out to save a child trapped on a nearby bell tower. Sato orders Chozen to help, but when the latter refuses, he shamed and disowns him, wherein Sato rushes to assist Daniel himself. At this point, Sato and Miyagi the two reconciled again, wherein the former saw the kind of person he'd become.

In the aftermath of the storm, Sato returns to rebuild the village and gave Miyagi and its residents the deed, asking the latter to forgive him, to which Miyagi replied there was nothing to forgive. Sato decides that all O-bon festivities will be held in the abandoned castle and as part of the reconciliation, he asks Daniel to join them.

During one part of the celebration, while Kumiko performs, Sato and Daniel warn her of Chozen zip-lining. With Chozen taking Kumiko hostage, Sato tries to reason with him but the latter grows irrational, demanding to fight Daniel to the death.

Between the events of The Karate Kid Part II & Cobra Kai, Sato saves Chozen from committing suicide and shows him that it's not too late to change. He also helps Tomi's village after a drought by turning it into a tourist attraction years before his death.

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Trivia[]

  • Ironically, despite it being his main motivation in the movie, Sato is the only major villain from the original films who never fights Mr. Miyagi.
  • He heard of Kim Sun-Yung growing up and hated him.

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The Karate Kid (1984)
Cobra Kai
John Kreese | Johnny Lawrence | Dutch | Bobby Brown | Tommy | Jimmy

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The Karate Kid Part II
Chozen Toguchi | Sato Toguchi | Toshio & Taro | John Kreese

The Karate Kid Part III
Cobra Kai
Terry Silver | Mike Barnes | John Kreese | Snake | Dennis

DynaTox Industries
Margaret Spencer | Milos Dadok

The Next Karate Kid
Alpha Elite
Colonel Dugan | Ned Randall | Charlie | Gabe | Morgan

The Karate Kid (2010)
Fighting Dragons Studio
Master Li | Cheng | Liang | Zhuang | Song

Cobra Kai
Season 1
Kyler Park | Brucks | Yasmine | Moon | Rory | A.J. | Trey & Cruz | Tom Cole | Louie LaRusso, Jr. | Sid Weinberg | Robby Keene | Miguel Diaz | Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz | John Kreese
Season 2
Cobra Kai (John Kreese, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Tory Nichols, Raymond "Stingray", Miguel Diaz, Chris, Mitch, Bert, Doug Rickenberger, Mikey, Edwin, Big Red, Dieter, Lawson & Dirk) | Trey & Cruz | Derek | Graham | Armand Zakarian | Ear Gauge
Season 3
Cobra Kai (John Kreese, Tory Nichols, Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, Kyler Park, Robby Keene, Mitch, Doug Rickenberger, Mikey, Brucks, Edwin, Big Red, Paul, Dieter, Lawson & Dirk) | Tom Cole | Trey & Cruz | Sid Weinberg | Captain Turner | Shawn Payne | David | James | Juan | Hector | Roger | Bo | Pham Minh Tao | Vietnamese Soldiers
Season 4
Cobra Kai (Terry Silver, John Kreese, Robby Keene, Tory Nichols, Kenny Payne, Kyler Park, Piper Elswith, Edwin, Big Red, Dieter, Jake, & Paul) | Zack Thompson | Slade Wang | Marcus | Raymond "Stingray" Porter | Greg Hughes | Kandace Nichols
Season 5
Cobra Kai (Terry Silver, Kim Da-Eun, Kenny Payne, Hyan-Woo, Odell, Bacaria, Min-Jun, Morozov, Suk-Chin, Kyler Park, Mitch, Big Red, Edwin, Dieter, Paul, Devon Lee) | John Kreese | Kim Sun-Yung | Hector Salazar
Season 6
Cobra Kai (John Kreese, Kim Da-Eun, Tory Nichols, Kwon Jae-Sung, Yoon Do-Jin) | Kim Sun-Yung | Zenker

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