
He was hospitalized for a while after his fight against Mitsui's gang. Off-court, Miyagi has a reputation for being a bad boy. He has been known to pose for Ayako during matches. Like Sakuragi, Miyagi is motivated to play by his love for a girl: his best friend and classmate Ayako, the manager of the team, whom he refers to as "Aya-chan".

When he was a freshman during his flashback, Miyagi's school uniform is dark blue like the other freshman students such as his basketball teammates, Sakuragi and Rukawa. His jersey uniform is red and black and its alternate is white and red. He also has a white wristband on his left wrist. During summer, he only wears a white short sleeve loose polo shirt along with his navy blue pants and black shoes.ĭuring basketball training, Miyagi wears two shirts such as the white and black loose shirt or the yellow shirt with a green trim within his white basketball shorts and wears white basketball shoes. Like Akagi, Kogure, and Mitsui, Miyagi wears a navy blue standard Shohoku winter school uniform and has a white short sleeved undershirt beneath his school uniform. Miyagi has short, curly pompadour dark brown hair with brown highlights that resembles a bowl cut and black eyes. After an initial misunderstanding that caused conflict between them (he was fighting Mitsui when Sakuragi and Ayako came around, and he thought she was dating him), both found comradeship in the fact that they had both been unlucky in love, although Miyagi, having only been rejected 10 times, still falls short of Sakuragi's record who was rejected 50 times. Ryota Miyagi (宮城 リョータ Miyagi Ryōta) is Sakuragi's closest friend on the team.

He died at age 73 of natural causes at Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 24, 2005.Keep practicing, never let somebody tell you you're too small or too slow However, his real strengths lay in portraying slightly oddball or unusual characters in offbeat films. Although most often used as a minor character actor, he remained consistently busy and occasionally lent his vocal talents to animated features such as Мулан (1998).

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Morita was quite in demand on the small screen and also scored the lead in his own police drama Ohara (1987), and guest-starred on other high-profile television series including Magnum, P.I. Morita got his next break playing the often-perplexed restaurant owner Matsho "Arnold" Takahashi in 26 episodes of the hugely popular sitcom Happy Days (1974) between 19, and again between 19. He quickly adapted to the screen and showed up in small parts in such comedy films as The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968), alongside Don Knotts, and in Evil Roy Slade (1972) supporting John Astin. However, putting all that karate aside, the diminutive Morita actually first started out as a stand-up comedian known as the Hip Nip in nightclubs and bars, and made his first on-screen appearance in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Abundantly busy and much-loved Asian-American actor who became an on-screen hero to millions of adults and kids alike as the wise and wonderful Mr.
