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
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Because the Japanese fought to the death. They did not surrender.
American born Japanese.
Bataan Death March
Russian soldiers
around 21,000 Japanese died. 6,800 Americans died,with 20,000 Americans injured My information is from Daniel Yergin's book, the Prize, which i am reading now. I just read this section earlier this week