Inspirado no relato de Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort), este drama criminal acompanha o jovem jornalista americano enquanto ele mergulha no submundo do final dos anos 90 em Tóquio, onde nada e ninguém é o que parece.

Reconstituições e comentários de especialistas dão vida à história conturbada e às lutas por poder no Japão feudal do século 16.

A beautiful Japanese madam and her ladies. A deranged, drug-addled Tokyo gangster and his crew. A sadistic serial killer on the loose. The intersection of these stories, and the interior world of the characters, plays out against a dreamlike backdrop of ultraviolence and orgiastic sex, as everyone tries futilely to rewrite their futures and cheat death. A modern, dreamlike take on the gangster genre, She's Just a Shadow is the action-packed story of a matriarchal crime family engaged in a vicious gang war. A deranged killer is leaving his victims on railroad tracks all over Tokyo, and the only thing more dangerous than him is the vicious love triangle within the family itself.