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During one production, shot near a creek where families picnicked, he watched the same depressing scene play out day after day: The adults would drink, gamble, fight and fling empty soju bottles, while the children would catch minnows in the water, occasionally cutting their feet on the broken glass.

Ashley presents Spill the Soju, a K-pop fan podcast, with her best friend Chelsea Toledo.

There are familiar scenes involving bottles of soju, moments of awkward conversation and garbled philosophizing in this film.

Those elements, of artists in quotidian scenarios, drinking soju and smoking amid everyday conversation, are present in many of the small humanist gems that make up this South Korean auteur’s filmography, and the same goes for his latest, “In Our Day.”

Neff and Han, strangers before the trip began, shared a long hug and some shots of soju.