Chozen Toguchi is unquestionably a badass.
“When I saw that [in the script], I said, ‘Oh my God, seriously?
I’ve gotta show my butt on camera?'”
Yuji Okumoto as Chozen in ‘Cobra Kai’.Netflix
“I said, ‘I don’t know if they want to see an old dude’s butt.
“It would have been funny if he was holding this small little face towel.”
‘Oh, what am I doing?’
And I made that call.
It’ll be interesting to see where that goes after that.”
Though Netflix hasn’t yet renewedCobra Kai, plenty of fans are now shipping Chozen and Kumiko (Choziko?
and hope they get together in season 6.
“All the fans, that’s all they talk about: ‘How is Kumiko?
Oh man, I had such a crush on Kumiko inKarate Kid II,'” says Okumoto.
“It would be interesting to see the two of them together now on a different level.
Before [in season 3], we were just friends.
Watch the full interview with Okumoto above.
