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Windtalkers

Windtalkers

Honor Was Their Code.

20026.32h 14m

Overview

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

Directed by John Woo
Written by John Rice, Joe Batteer
Produced by Terence Chang, Alison R. Rosenzweig, Tracie Graham-Rice
Box OfficeBudget: $115.0MRevenue: $77.6M

Top Cast

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

Sergeant Joe Enders

Adam Beach

Adam Beach

Private Ben Yahzee

Peter Stormare

Peter Stormare

Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad

Noah Emmerich

Noah Emmerich

Corporal Charles Rogers

Mark Ruffalo

Mark Ruffalo

Pappas

Brian Van Holt

Brian Van Holt

Harrigan

Martin Henderson

Martin Henderson

Private Nellie

Roger Willie

Roger Willie

Charlie Whitehorse

Frances O'Connor

Frances O'Connor

Rita Swelton

Christian Slater

Christian Slater

Sergeant Peter Henderson

Themes & Keywords

japanworld war iiradio transmissionmarine corpsus armynative americancodebased on true storynavajopacific warwar hero

About Windtalkers

Windtalkers is a war, action film released in 2002 exploring themes of japan, world war ii, radio transmission, marine corps, us army, native american. Directed by John Woo, it stars Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare. Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

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