- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- 95 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes91%Metacritic69IMDb6.4
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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?
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Contemporary, intimate, contemplative and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Apr 20266/10
When a rather asthmatic sounding young gent (Kazunari Ninomiya) gets off a subway train, he gets a call from his ex-girfriend telling him that she is in the hospital and that she is pregnant. What is he to do - especially as he has just witnessed a stroppy man on the packed train lose the plot with a mother and her young, screeching, babe-in arms and ignored it? He agrees to head to the hospital, and so heads for exit eight. Thing is, he never seems to get any nearer to it and after a while he starts to notice a sort of groundhog day scenario is occuring. He stops to read a safety notice on the wall which gives him a bit of a clue, and now he has to play a game of increasingly frustrating and quite ruthless spot the difference, whilst being distracted by a curious grinning man (Yamato Kochi), a mature-for-her-years high school student (Kotone Hanase) and the an observant young lad (the star of the show Naru Asanuma) who might be lost, or might be significant in an altogether unexpected fashion. Now barring one scene that might just fit the bill, this isn't so much an horror film as a psychological thriller with precious little dialogue and quite a lot of repetition. It does present
Read the whole review on TMDB - Alunauwieon TMDB · Feb 20267/10
Exit 8 adapts Kotake Create’s 2023 video game into a psychological loop that traps viewers in the same disorienting corridor as its protagonist, using shifting perspectives and symbolic typography to reflect inner guilt and trauma. While the repetitive structure and timeline inconsistencies may test patience, the film builds tension through the suffocating feeling of being stuck rather than through conventional scares. Ultimately, it delivers a reflective and immersive experience that favors emotional resonance over neat answers. Read the full review here: (Indonesian version : alunauwie.com) and (English version : uwiepuspita.com)
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Cast
- Kazunari NinomiyaLost Man
- Yamato KochiWalking Man
- Naru AsanumaThe Boy
- Kotone HanaseHigh School Student
- Nana KomatsuLost Man's Partner
- Hirota OtsukaScreaming Man on Train
- Tara NakashimaMother on Train
- Reo SodaChild
- Mikio UedaMan on Train
- HIKAKINPasserby
Crew
- Genki KawamuraDirector
- Genki KawamuraScreenplay
- Kentaro HiraseScreenplay
- Keisuke ImamuraDirector of Photography
- Shouhei AmimoriOriginal Music Composer
- Yasutaka NakataOriginal Music Composer
- Sakura SeyaEditor
- Minami IchikawaProducer
- Taichi UedaProducer
- Yoshihiro FurusawaProducer
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