During the ice breaking scene when Daniel begins his breathing technique, everyone in the bar starts laughing and egging him on, and then we get this quick shot of Sato who has this look of recognition and appreciation on his face. It's sort of our first hint that Sato may not be a completely irredeemable douche nozzle.
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True I noticed that as well. Too bad Daniel's warrior spirit wasn't enough for Sato.
shareIt's actually my favourite scene. The initial smug look, slowly being replaced by a recognition stare. Then the look away in disgust as if to realise that Daniel is quite well versed in meditation.
shareWatched this full movie for the first time in years last night, and it really was the perfect compliment to the first film. Instead of just rehashing the first movie, they change things up and let us see what made Miyagi tick. Daniel seemed to grow up a little here, over the first movie, wasn't so awkward, scared and injury prone like in the first.
Of course, in the sequel which followed, they saw fit to write off the love interests made in this film, and make Daniel lose his *beep* and be more of a baby than in the first movie. Miyagi seemed like an *beep* too. KK3, IMHO, was like Aliens 3 was to Aliens.
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I think Sato all along respected Daniel.
The scene where he and Chozen meet Miyagi and Daniel in the village and Sato contfronts Miyagi, Chozen spits to Daniel that his teacher is a coward and Sato sharply warns him to keep out of it.
In the scene where Miyagi visits Sato and Miyagi asks Sato what has happened you can see the look in his eyes that he has totally lost balance.
The scene where Taro, Toshio, and Chozen go to trash the dojo, garden, and house at night you can tell he is very upset that Miyagi is not there. This implies that Sato is now willing to have Chozen, Taro, and Toshio hurt Daniel but you can just tell in his voice and on his face that this was like a very last maybe end of the world last resort.
I also like the scene where he's meditating. I think he catches Daniel out of the corner of his eye and he just starts thinking, "I'm sorry he has to see this go through."
He gives Miyagi 3 days to mourn and he reluctantly but does accept the deal that if Miyagi fights him the village stays.
The whole film is just based on how Sato is so messed up because he has lost balance.
But at the end it proves he really respects Daniel when he tells Miyagi, "your student become my teacher"
The thing that elevates Sato above all the other scumbag villains in this franchise is that he at least tried to keep things between Miyagi and himself and avoid collateral damage. It was only when pushed to the extreme that he involved first Daniel and then the entire village in his vendetta and you could tell that he was all kinds of pissed that he had to do so. The subtext in the scene where he threatens to bulldoze the village just screams 'you're forcing my hand, Miyagi' to me, and i think that that's why he sounds angrier there then anywhere else in the movie. Sato in the end suffers from the same lack of balance that afflicts every villain in this franchise and his tactics are completely unjustifiable, but he's at least self-aware enough to realize it and regret the dishonorable lengths that his obsession drives him to.
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