The Sleep Curse

The Sleep Curse 2017

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In 1990, Neurologist Lam Sik Ka and his former flame suffer from the generational sleep curse that rooted in their both families war engagement during World War Two. Lam tries to save her flame from the grudge.

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3.9 Beginner Director Herman Yau IMDb 5.6

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Vocabulary

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běn jiù by nature; fundamentally; inherently ∼HSK 1
zuò shǒu to put one's hand to sth; to set about; skillful hands; worker; writer ∼HSK 1
zhè zhǒng this kind of ∼HSK 1
shí fifty ∼HSK 1
rén by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) ∼HSK 1
shī wizard; magician ∼HSK 1
zǎo diǎn breakfast ∼HSK 1
zhè wèi this (person) ∼HSK 1
ge a few; several; how many ∼HSK 1
bái chī idiocy; idiot ∼HSK 1
xià ge the next one ∼HSK 1
yào kàn (it) depends on... ∼HSK 1
tài hǎo not so good; not too well ∼HSK 1
zhōng shū center; hub; the central administration ∼HSK 1
nǎo gàn brain stem ∼HSK 1
bǎi fēn percent; percentage ∼HSK 1
jiǔ shí ninety ∼HSK 1
míng not clear; unknown; to fail to understand ∼HSK 1
shí eighteen; 18 ∼HSK 1
shì ma isn't that so? ∼HSK 1
méi le to be dead; not to be, or cease to exist ∼HSK 1
zhè shì 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that ∼HSK 1
děng we; us (archaic) ∼HSK 1
hái girl; lass ∼HSK 1
màn màn chī Enjoy your meal!; Bon appetit! ∼HSK 1
chī bu xià not feel like eating; be unable to eat any more ∼HSK 1
děng děng et cetera; and so on...; wait a minute!; hold on! ∼HSK 1
shí forty; 40 ∼HSK 1
xiǎng jiàn to infer; to gather ∼HSK 1
ge which ∼HSK 1
first-year university student ∼HSK 1
zuò shì to work; to handle matters; to have a job ∼HSK 1
níng méng shuǐ lemonade ∼HSK 1
bǎi nián hundred years; century; lifetime ∼HSK 1
kàn cuò to misinterpret what one sees or reads; to misjudge (sb); to mistake (sb for sb else); to misread (a document) ∼HSK 1
jiā jiě (polite) my older sister ∼HSK 1
zhǎo huí to retrieve ∼HSK 1
shàng to start on a journey; to be on one's way ∼HSK 1
jiā de (old) wife ∼HSK 1
kàn zài (in the expression +... +) for the sake of...; considering... ∼HSK 1
first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) ∼HSK 1
duō (dialect) how much; how many; how (smart etc); such... ∼HSK 1
huì a moment; a while; in a moment; also pr. [yi1 hui3] ∼HSK 1
zuò chū to put out; to issue ∼HSK 1
fàng kāi to let go; to release ∼HSK 1
děng děng wait a moment ∼HSK 1
bàn nián half a year HSK 1
jiā rén household; the whole family ∼HSK 1
kàn bìng to visit a doctor; to see a patient HSK 1
younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter) HSK 1