Screened as part of 2025

Exit 8 2025

Hachiban deguchi

Directed by Genki Kawamura

A brand new Japanese horror masterpiece based on the Japanese video game of the same name that’s set to become an instant cult classic all around the world.

Japan • In Japanese with English subtitles
95 minutes

Rent

Director

Producers

Genki Kawamura
,
Minami Ichikawa
,
Yoshihiro Furusawa
,
Taichi Itô
,
Taichi Ueda
,
Kenji Yamada

Screenplay

Genki Kawamura
,
Kentaro Hirase

Cinematography

Keisuke Imamura

Editor

Sakura Seya

Music

Yasutaka Nakata

Cast

Kazunari Ninomiya
,
Yamato Kochi
,
Naru Asanuma
,
Kotone Hanase
,
Nana Komatsu

Festivals

Cannes (Midnight Screenings), Melbourne 2025

"Ask anyone – it’s easy to get lost in the Tokyo subway. Genki Kawamura’s delightful blockbuster provocation Exit 8 understands and exploits these frustrations, transforming these claustrophobic corridors into a site of psychological exploration, personal choice, and national anxieties.

Quite possibly the first video game adaptation to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Exit 8 contains no jump scares. It instead succeeds through a cumulative anxiety, where we could be stuck here forever, and that something genuinely horrific could eventually appear within this cyclical space. 

It’s a devilishly entertaining time at the movies, building to an exhilarating finale that centers why The Lost Man, or indeed the viewer, should want to leave this recursive labyrinth." — Blake Simons, IndieWire