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‘Love on Trial’ Review: Koji Fukada Mounts a Low-Impact Defense of a J-Pop Fallen Idol

Despite taking place in the glittery, plasticized universe of Japanese girlband stardom, a strange drabness pervades director Koji Fukada’s “Love on Trial,” a downtempo price-of-fame drama that consistently takes the least interesting route out of the fraught situations it sets up. Where there’s the potential for incisive commentary on the chew-em-up, spit-em-out nature of modern […]

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