The Trigger

A professional hitman is hired to take out a target however his girlfriends pregnancy gives him second thoughts He decides that after this job he will renounce his profession and turn himself in This is the first feature film from Taiwanese director Alex Yang who participated in scriptwriting and production on Edward Yangs early films The Trigger has echoes of Yangs Mahjong The actors in the film except for veteran Ngai ManYin are all new faces unfortunately Ngais death in 2005 also made The Trigger his last appearance on screen