Windwalker

It’s set in the 18th century and is told in flashback, as narrated by the Cheyenne warrior Windwalker’s long-lost son. It begins with the elderly Windwalker on his deathbed getting up enough strength, thanks to the “Great Spirit,” to see if he can try once again to reunite his family by finding his twin son who was snatched by Crow and has now become a Crow warrior attacking his family. Windwalker feels he cannot have a peaceful afterlife again until this mission is accomplished.

As a young man, Windwalker suffered the tragic loss of his wife Tashina and one of his twin sons, Smiling Wolf, at the hands of an enemy Crow tribe that attacked him to steal his horses and wife. His twin son was part of that attack, not knowing he was Cheyenne and that it was his father and mother being attacked. How they eventually reunite is filled with the magical lore of Indian traditions, in a pic that may lack credibility in dramatic storytelling but is awesome in inspiring a spiritual awe. —Ozu’s World of Movie Reviews