189

1h 49min

Drama

Crime

189 is a phone number to call when a child needs to be saved from an abusive situation. Children and adults can call that number, where they will be connected with the nearest child consultation center. Taiga Sakamoto works as a rookie child welfare officer. A girl that he worked with is being sent back to her mother. The girl was abused by her mother and stayed at a shelter. The next day, she loses her life. Taiga thinks about quitting his job. At this time, he receives a phone call from the hospital. A doctor calls him and tells him that a six-year-old girl's wounds looks as if they were caused by physical abuse. The abuser is assumed to be her father, but the girl's father denies any wrongdoing. Taiga and Attorney Shion Akiba try to prove that the girl was abused by her father.

Production Companies

VONS Pictures

United Vision

Bandai Namco Arts

Tokyo Offline Center

Tokyo Offline Center

Cast

Yuma Nakayama

Yuma Nakayama

Taiga Sakamoto
Natsuna Watanabe

Natsuna Watanabe

Shion Akiba
Hisashi Yoshizawa

Hisashi Yoshizawa

Shoichi Masuda
Yasuyuki Maekawa

Yasuyuki Maekawa

Nobuhiro Yasukawa
Yuno Ota

Yuno Ota

Seira Masuda
Atsuki Tomori

Atsuki Tomori

Noriko Masuda
Sei Hiraizumi

Sei Hiraizumi

Kiyoshi Sakamoto
Hiroshi Takigawa

Hiroshi Takigawa

Mamoru Aoshima
Takuto Teranishi

Takuto Teranishi

Raimu Kimura

Release date

3rd Dec 2021

Status

Released

Spoken languages

日本語