Exit 8

From the award-winning film director and New York Times bestselling author of If Cats Disappeared from the World , a surreal novelization of his hit film Exit 8 , adapting the indie horror game of the same name.

A path with no beginning, no end.

A man with a life-changing decision to make finds himself trapped in a seemingly infinite corridor in a Tokyo subway station. Each time he passes through the sterile, quiet hallway, he discovers himself back at its beginning, walking past the same doors, the same posters, and disturbingly, the same people, as he did the previous time. He soon discovers that in order to reach the elusive "Exit 8", he must look more closely at his surroundings, and notice the tunnel's bizarre anomalies.

Spot one, and he must turn back. Spot none, and he can proceed.

Make it to eight, and he'll be free. Make a mistake, and he must start over again.

As he stumbles through an endless loop of conformity, confronting the strange, new possibilities of his own life, he begins to wonder if anomalies are not things to be feared but to be embraced. Maybe, he thinks, the only way out is through.

Genki Kawamura was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1979. He produced films such as Confessions , Villain , Wolf Children: Ame and Yuki , your name , and Koreeda's Monster . Youngest recipient in history for the Fujimoto Award. In 2012, he published his first novel If Cats Disappeared from the World . The book has been translated in 32 countries. Other works include Million Dollar Man , April Come She Will , Divine Song , Shigoto , Rikei , and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse which he translated into Japanese. In 2022, he directed and wrote the film A Hundred Flowers based on his novel, to which he received the Silver Shell for Best Director Award at San Sebastian International Film Festival.