Acclaimed Japanese Horror 'Exit 8' Arrives on Blu-ray from Visions Home Video
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August 1, 2026
One of 2025's most unsettling Japanese horror films has made its way to UK shelves as Exit 8 arrives on Blu-ray from Visions Home Video. Directed by Genki Kawamura and based on the hugely popular video game by KOTAKE CREATE, the psychological nightmare traps viewers in an endless subway corridor where the smallest mistake can mean starting all over again. Following its acclaimed festival run, including a world premiere at Cannes, Visions Home Video Exit 8 Blu-ray release is complete with behind-the-scenes content, festival featurettes and trailers.
Release Details
Label: Visions Home Video
Formats: Blu-ray
Release Date: July 29, 2026
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?
Based on the global hit horror video game created by KOTAKE CREATE, Exit 8 had its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Directed by Genki Kawamura co-creator with Kore-Eda Hirokazu of Netflix original series The Makanai, and producer of international hits Your Name and Suzume, directed by Makoto
Shinkai; Mirai and Belle, directed by Mamoru Hosoda; and Monster directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu.
Starring Kazunari Ninomiya, who made his Hollywood debut in 2006 under the direction of Clint Eastwood in Letters from Iwo Jima and Nana Komatsu, star of Martin Scorsese's Silence.
Blu-ray Extras
Behind the Scenes of Exit 8
On the Carpet at Cannes Film Festival
On the Carpet at Busan Film Festival
UK Trailer
Japanese Trailer