comacasy
the samurai duty was to server the emperor in dark times when the shogun was away from the kingdom to be a bodyguard/soldier for the wealthy
Askia Mohammed. He was one of the previous king, Sonni Ali's generals.
The last Japanese soldier to surrender was Captain Fumio Nakahira who held out until April, 1980, before being discovered at Mt. Halcon on Mindoro Island in the Philippines. Before that, there was Onoda Hiroo, discovered in the jungle of Lubang Island on March 11, 1974, twenty-nine years after the war ended.
If that film had the actor Aldo Ray in it, it's not a rare scene and could be more than one movie. In fact, maybe not a cigarette was involved, but Japanese "surrenderies" were shot in one of Clint Eastwood's latest war flicks..."Letters From Iwo Jima" released in '07 or '08.This scenerio was also described in the Norman Mailer classic The naked and the dead
Hokusai the famous Japanese painter mentioned in the book.
friendship and loss
No, Michael is not Kensuke's son.
No1 knows
David Stimson
yes
somewhere
Nagasaki
Kensuke's Kingdom is 179 pages long.
Michael Morpurgo wrote "Kensuke's Kingdom" in 1999.
no
In a cave.