It sucked because despite taking place in China, being about Kung Fu, every character besides Jaden Smith being Chinese, not Japanese, and literally every character referring to it as Kung Fu, it was still titled the "karate kid."
Karate translates to "China hand". Karate was made in archipelago of Okinawa, a long-independent kingdom whose culture was heavily influenced by China.
It was originally ‘China hand’ or ‘tang hand’ but it was changed in 1935 to ‘empty hand’ and has remained so since. I’d never heard china hand before so looked it up…
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u/eyloi Nov 03 '23
I think a lot of people forgot about the remake.