Exit 8 is an incredibly straightforward film -a man stuck in an endless hallway- but it reveals things much deeper than anyone would expect. As our hero, The Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya) enters the puzzle (it doesn’t feel right to quite call it a maze), he’s just hung up with his now-pregnant ex-girlfriend. The train he was on had a screaming baby, and a rude man berating that child’s mother. His breathing was difficult because of his asthma. And then he was stuck, moving back and forth, each new turn down the hallway revealing some piece of himself through increasingly intense existential nightmare fuel each time he passes the sign for Exit 8. Whether that’s The Walking Man (Yamato Kochi) ceaselessly and emotionlessly (except when he’s not) walking toward him or something more visceral, best for you to discover on your own.
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