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Windtalkers
Synopsis
On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan. For the next several years, U.S. forces were fully engaged in battle throughout the Pacific, taking over islands one by one in a slow progression towards mainland Japan. During this brutal campaign, the Japanese were continually able to break coded military transmissions, dramatically slowing U.S. progress. In 1942, several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. Marine Joe Enders is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee - a Navajo code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect his code talker, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, he's to "protect the code at all costs." Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan, when capture is imminent, Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code?
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    John Woo,
  • Writer:
    John Rice, Joe Batteer,
  • Producer:
    Alison R. Rosenzweig, Tracie Graham-Rice, Tracie Graham, John Woo, Terence Chang, Alison R. Rosenzweig, Alison Rosenzweig,
  • Cinematographer:
    Jeffrey L. Kimball,
  • Editor:
    Tom Rolf, Jeff Gullo, Steven Kemper,
  • Executive Producer:
    C.O. Erickson,
  • Cast:
    Jason Isaacs, Christian Slater, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Nicolas Cage, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Noah Emmerich,
  • Associate Producer:
    Steve Traxler,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Arthur Anderson,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Joan Cunningham,
  • Second Second Assistant Director:
    Randol Perelman-Taylor,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Alan Rankin, Mark P. Stoeckinger, Victor Ray Ennis,
  • Camera Operator:
    Gregory Lundsgaard,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Cate Hardman,
  • Art Department Coordinator:
    Lynette Wich, Abigail Sheiner,
  • Boom Operator:
    Joel Shryack,
  • Construction Coordinator:
    Gary Deaton,
  • First Assistant Camera:
    Ken Nishino,
  • Production Coordinator:
    Gary MacPherson,
  • Production Sound Mixer:
    Richard Bryce Goodman,
  • Property Master:
    Don Miloyevich,
  • Sound Editor:
    Paul Jyrälä, Perry Robertson,
  • Key Makeup Artist:
    Rick Stratton,
  • Second Unit Director:
    Brian Smrz,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Randy Thom, David E. Fluhr,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    Michael Hansen,
  • Hairstylist:
    William A. Farley, Linda Leiter Sharp, Linda Rizzuto, Joseph Coscia,
  • Negative Cutter:
    Gary Burritt,
  • First Assistant Editor:
    Ray Boniker,
  • Key Grip:
    J. Michael Popovich,
  • Dialogue Editor:
    Michael Hertlein, David A. Cohen,
  • Leadman:
    John Schacht,
  • Color Timer:
    Dennis McNeill,
  • Makeup Effects Designer:
    Kevin Yagher,
  • Music Editor:
    Philip Tallman, Dick Bernstein, Joe E. Rand,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Bill Myer, Allen Weisinger,
  • Sound Designer:
    Bryan Bowen, Bruce Tanis,
  • Visual Effects Editor:
    Kevin Clark, Clark Campbell,
  • Steadicam Operator:
    Mark Van Loon, Gregory Lundsgaard,
  • Wigmaker:
    Carol F. Doran,
  • Stunts:
    Dane Farwell, Denney Pierce, Tim Gilbert, Bob Brown, Paul E. Short, Bobby Burns, Gregory J. Barnett, Troy Brown, Chris O'Hara,
  • Chief Lighting Technician:
    Dan Delgado,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Eddie Yansick, Al Goto, Brian Smrz, Gregg Smrz,
  • First Assistant 'B' Camera:
    Dennis Seawright,
  • Costume Supervisor:
    Nick Scarano,
  • Key Hair Stylist:
    Janis Clark,
  • Assistant Chief Lighting Technician:
    Frank Mathews,
  • Foley Artist:
    Jeffrey Wilhoit, James Moriana,
  • B Camera Operator:
    Michael St. Hilaire,
  • Second Assistant Camera:
    Dale White,
  • CG Supervisor:
    David Altenau,
  • Second Assistant 'C' Camera:
    Don Steinberg,
  • Set Designer:
    A. Todd Holland, Luis G. Hoyos,
  • Casting:
    Mindy Marin,
  • Still Photographer:
    Stephen Vaughan,
  • First Assistant 'C' Camera:
    Zoran Veselic,
  • Visual Effects Coordinator:
    Bridgitte Krupke,
  • Foley Recordist:
    Greg Zimmerman,
  • Foley Mixer:
    Nerses Gezalyan,
  • Set Decoration:
    Richard C. Goddard,
  • Visual Effects Producer:
    Kevin Elam,
  • ADR Editor:
    Laura Graham, Eliza Pollack Zebert,
  • Pilot:
    Cliff Fleming,
  • ADR Supervisor:
    Zack Davis,
  • Original Music Composer:
    James Horner,
  • C Camera Operator:
    Jeff Mart,
  • Cableman:
    Tommy Giordano,
  • Dolby Consultant:
    Daniel Sperry,
  • First Assistant 'D' Camera:
    Gregory Irwin,
  • Foley Editor:
    Willard Overstreet,
  • D Camera Operator:
    Leo J. Napolitano,
  • Production Design:
    Holger Gross,
  • Production Manager:
    John J. Smith,
  • Camera Loader:
    Lynda Wu,
  • Second Assistant 'D' Camera:
    Shawn Landis,
  • Dolly Grip:
    Mark Meyers, Thomas J. Ruffner,
  • Art Direction:
    Kevin Ishioka,
  • Visual Effects Supervisor:
    Kevin Lingenfelser,
  • Supervising Music Editor:
    Jim Henrikson,
  • Screenplay:
    Joe Batteer, John Rice,
  • Second Assistant 'B' Camera:
    Vincent Mata,
  • Makeup Department Head:
    Steve LaPorte,

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