Windtalkers is a 2002 action war film directed by John Woo. Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater star as two US Marine sergeants assigned to protect Navajo code talkers in Saipan during World War II. World War II, Sgt. Joe Enders rallies to return to active duty with the aid of his pharmacist after previously surviving a gruesome battle against the Imperial Japanese Army that killed his entire squad and left him almost deaf from a Japanese grenade explosion. Enders' new assignment is to protect Navajo code talker Pvt. Ben Yahzee , which earns him the rank of sergeant. Sgt. Ox Anderson also... receives a parallel assignment protecting Navajo code talker Pvt. Charlie Whitehorse . Yahzee and Whitehorse, both life long friends from the same Navajo tribe, are trained to send and receive coded messages that direct battleship bombardments of Japanese entrenched positions. Enders and Anderson are told that the code cannot fall into enemy hands, implying that they are to kill their code talkers if capture is imminent.
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| Release date: | June 14, 2002 |
| Directed by: | John Woo |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 134 Minutes |
| Producer: | John Woo, Terence Chang, Tracie Graham-Rice, Alison R. Rosenzweig |
| Editor: | Jeff Gullo, Steven Kemper, Tom Rolf |
| Music by: | James Horner |
| Screenplay by: | Joe Batteer, John Rice |
| Estimated budget: | $115,000,000 |
| Genre: | Action |