The Karate Kid, Part III

The Karate Kid, Part III Trivia

Jonathan Avildsen, son of the film's director John G. Avildsen, screen tested for the part of Mike Barnes.
This movie was part of a wave in the late 80's/early 90's to introduce wide screen letterbox movies to the general public. The first printing of the VHS are all in letterbox. (re-prints from 1994 claim to be in wide screen but are pan & scan). (Ghostbusters II was another big title movie released in letterbox only in the first printing, many video stores got complaints about these titles because customer's thought that there was half of the picture missing, many video store owners called RCA/Columbia to find out if there was a printing problem to only be told that they were meant to be this way.)
In real life, Thomas Ian Griffith is a year younger than Ralph Macchio.
This is Thomas Ian Griffith's movie debut.