This lovely film music cue has been on my mind the last few days because for some reason, the YouTube algorithm served up a clip from The Karate Kid Part II, and because I like that movie (it’s not as good as the first one, but it’s still quite watchable and it’s gorgeously filmed), the YouTube algorithm proceeded to give me more of it to watch. So here’s a wonderful cue that’s from a scene toward the end, just before the movie’s climactic action starts to unfold. Daniel is set to leave Okinawa and return home, but before he does, he visits the Okinawan girl he’s been hanging around with in an old warehouse, where she performs a tea ceremony for him. It’s a frankly wonderful scene, wordless as the music plays. I featured this cue here before, but it’s been a bunch of years, so here it is again: “Daniel Leaves” by Bill Conti.
(The cue ends suddenly because at that moment the wind whips up, blowing out the candle hanging above them and alerting them to the coming cyclone.)
