Exit 8

Exit 8 (2025)

８番出口

Turn back.

A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?

Date of release
2025-08-03
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (893)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Director
Genki Kawamura

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $1.4M
  • Based on: The Exit 8
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Exit 8 is a 2025 Japanese mystery psychological horror film directed by Genki Kawamura, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kentaro Hirase. It is an adaptation of the 2023 video game The Exit 8 developed by Kotake Create. The film stars Kazunari Ninomiya as an unnamed man who is caught in a looping subway corridor and must spot possible anomalies in each loop to escape.

Production

A live-action film based on The Exit 8 video game was announced by Toho on 27 December 2024, with Genki Kawamuraset to write, produce and direct the film, starring Kazunari Ninomiya and Yamato Kochi as the "lost man" and "walking man", respectively. On 1 May 2025, it was announced that actress Nana Komatsu would be joining the cast. She was cast in a mysterious role with no official name or backstory revealed at the time.

Filming took place from late 2024 to early 2025 in Tokyo, mainly in a set that was built as a replica of the original game's underground passage.

Ninomiya was part of the production, credited with script cooperation. As a gamer himself, and knowing the game first hand, Ninomiya provided Kawamura with tips, which were useful in adapting a non-story game into a story. Ninomiya considered that in a production with many scenes featuring one person, filming would not progress smoothly if there were three directions to be taken from director, scriptwriter, and actor.

Kawamura wrote in the novelization of the movie that he cut a scene before screening it at Cannes, because he thought that it was too scary to show. Among the parts of the scene that were cut (and reserved for a possible future "director's cut" version) are the backstory of "the Walking Man"; how "the Lost Man" could become a "Walking Man"; the reason for the photobooth and the pile of discarded items; a "Homeless Man".

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