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. Tagline: Honor was their Code.
Plot
The film begins with then
corporal Joe Enders (
Cage) and a platoon of his fellow Marines fighting
Japanese forces on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in 1943. The outnumbered Marines are killed one by one, and as Enders mourns over the body of a friend, a
grenade explosion knocks Enders unconscious.