He gained international acclaim for playing the young Lau Kin Ming in the crime thriller Infernal Affairs (2002). Other notable roles include (2005) and the gritty Dog Bite Dog (2006).
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The situation morphed into a bizarre cat-and-mouse game between the Hong Kong police and anonymous internet users. When police arrested a suspect and seized his hard drive, they claimed the circulating photos were "fake" or digitally altered to protect the victims. In response, the anonymous leakers—dubbed by local media as a digital "Avengers"—released unaltered, high-resolution raw files directly from Chen’s camera to prove their authenticity. He gained international acclaim for playing the young