Question

In a film, a character with this profession visits a man who hangs paper cranes on his yacht after looking for the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a library. After a rival shoves a meal off a table, a character with this profession tells a story about two men competing over a kidney transplant by guessing a card put in their pocket by the other. To celebrate spending “a quarter of a century on this planet,” a character with this profession jogs in the rain and receives a birthday message (15[1])from a (*) blonde wig-wearing woman he met at a bar. (10[2])A man with this profession chases a character in a scene that uses the step-printing effect to generate motion blur. In a 1994 film, two men with this profession played by Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung recover from romantic breakups. For 10 points, what profession is held by the leads of Chungking (10[1])Express and by the undercover Chan in Infernal Affairs? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Hong Kong policeman [or officer; or cop; accept detective, accept police inspector; accept police superintendent; prompt on gang member, mole, spy, or double agent AFTER “Chan” is read by asking “What is their actual profession?”] (The first line is from John Woo’s film Hard Boiled.)
<Fine Arts - Other Fine Arts - Film>
= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers8915
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country9910
Jared HeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha9910
Gareth ThorlaksonSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 15110
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken16110

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025N3100%0%0%112.33
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%20%0%119.80
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024N683%0%17%124.20
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024N3100%33%33%120.00
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024N3100%0%0%119.67