By MICHAEL GINGOLD
The acclaimed adaptation of the popular video game pulls into theaters in April.
EXIT 8, which has wowed audiences at Cannes and in its native Japan, opens nationwide April 10 from Neon. Directed by Genki Kawamura, producer of films such as Makoto Shinkai’s YOUR NAME and MIRAI, Mamoru Hosoda’s BELLE and Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s MONSTER, from a script he wrote with Kentaro Hirase, it stars Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, Kotone Hanase and Nana Komatsu. According to the official synopsis, “The movie follows a man [Ninomiya] trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway as he 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 Exit8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?”
