But “Exit 8,” a new film by the Japanese director Genki Kawamura, is the first movie I can recall to land in a hallway, and stay there. The movie opens in first person, from the perspective of a guy ...

Genki Kawamura’s “Exit 8” is a thriller unlike any other. Based on the 2023 video game, an unnamed protagonist (Kazunari Ninomiya) gets trapped in an endlessly repeating patch of a subway station ...

“Exit 8” screened Thursday as part of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival.

Genki Kawamura puts an arthouse spin on the virally successful 2023 independent video game in smart and surprising ways.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ask anyone — it’s easy to get lost in the Tokyo subway. The city’s underground boasts ample signposting to guide commuters and ...

GamesIndustry.biz sat down with Exit 8 director Genki Kawamura to find out the secret to a successful game-to-film adaptation ...

A movie adaptation of indie game The Exit 8 is in production, and it’ll come out some time in 2025. Toho has uploaded a short trailer onto its YouTube channel. It features a very familiar subway ...

Video games have gotten better film and TV adaptations these days. Since 2020, we’ve gotten hits like the Sonic the Hedgehog movies, HBO’s The Last of Us, and Netflix’s Arcane. Now, indie film ...

This image released by Neon shows Yamato Kôchi in a scene from "Exit 8." (Neon via AP) Hallways, generally speaking, are not places you want to be in the movies. You can be just strolling down one ...

Hallways, generally speaking, are not places you want to be in the movies. You can be just strolling down one when, all of a sudden, elevator doors open up and a river of blood comes flowing out. They ...