The Sleep Curse is a Hong Kong horror film directed by Herman Yau. The film goes back and forth between 1942 and 1990 between a family, with neuroscientist Lam Sik-ka and his father Lam Sing who was a translator for the Japanese occupational forces in Hong Kong. Sing has hid that in his past, he did not save a comfort woman from persecution by the occupiers. Sik-ka later learns that his father's death was due to a curse applied by this woman and will eventually also haunt him.