Paper Planes (2014)

A school kid growing up with only one struggling parent takes up a sport, is good at it, enters a competition that takes him to Tokyo, and pulls out a bird-inspired move to win the title, but this is not Daniel LaRusso, karate and the Crane Kick in The Karate Kid, but Dylan, paper-plane throwing, and the "Whistling Kite", in a feelgood Australian kids movie.

★★★☆☆

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The Karate Kid Part II (1986)

The stakes are ridiculously high now, escalating from a karate tournament title in the original Karate Kid movie to teenage death and honour in this melodramatic sequel, with a lanky teenaged Daniel-san (who really doesn't give the impression of being able to walk straight let alone coordinate a brutal drum rhythm-inspired karate takedown) and his senpai Mr Miyagi coming to the attention of Okinawan bullies.

★★☆☆☆

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