189

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Ikuo Kamon

Writers

Haruko Nagatsu

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

3 December 2021

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Yuma Nakayama

  Taiga Sakamoto

• 

  Natsuna Watanabe

  Shion Akiba

• 

  Hisashi Yoshizawa

  Shoichi Masuda

• 

  Yasuyuki Maekawa

  Nobuhiro Yasukawa

• 

  Yuno Ota

  Seira Masuda

• Atsuki Tomori

  Noriko Masuda

• 

  Sei Hiraizumi

  Kiyoshi Sakamoto

• Korroke

  Mamoru Aoshima

• Takuto Teranishi

  Raimu Kimura