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SHE’S JUST A SHADOW Review: A Nakedly Ambitious, Potent Crime Fantasy Thriller With Side Affects

Several features in, Adam Sherman’s latest, She’s Just A Shadow, falls right in the category of guilty pleasure cinematic ventures if wanderlust, coupled with the allure of Asian nightlife, topped with copious amounts of sex, violence and kink is your thing. That’s literally what you get in She’s Just A Shadow – fronted by an English-speaking cast of mostly Asian actors and actresses with Tokyo serving as Sherman’s backdrop of choice. The wild and crazy fervor of clubhopping, girl-on-girl orgies instantly tops the more cerebral developments in Sherman’s densely-colored, neon-lit tale of a Madame, and the intertwining drama surrounding her crime family, her closest friends, and her girls. A serial killer is on the loose, tying women naked to the train tracks in one way or another, violating them and live-streaming their murders one by one. It’s not too long before killer’s movements suddenly arrive to close to home for […]

SHE’S JUST A SHADOW: Adam Sherman’s Neon-Lit Crime Drama Arrives On DVD And VOD In October

Lee B. Golden III

Breaking Glass Pictures previously acquired Adam Sherman’s immersive new crime drama, She’s Just A Shadow, back in April. The distro company is now putting the gears in motion and making it official with a DVD and VoD release set for October 22. A beautiful Japanese madam. A deranged, drug-addled Tokyo gangster and his crew. A sadistic serial killer on the loose. The intersection of these stories, and the interior worlds of these characters, plays out against a dreamlike backdrop of ultra-violence and orgiastic sex as everyone tries futilely to rewrite their futures and cheat death. A dreamlike yet modern 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, while a deranged killer is leaving his victims on railroad tracks all over Tokyo. The only thing more dangerous than the killer is the vicious love triangle […]