Princess Sara

, also spelled as Princess Sarah for disambiguation purposes, is a Japanese anime television series based on the 1905 children's novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It aired from January to December 1985, as part of Nippon Animation's World Masterpiece Theater. The series follows Sara Crewe, a young girl student of an all-girls boarding school who later becomes orphaned and is forced to work as a servant. The anime series was remade into a Filipino live-action film adaptation, released in 1995. A Filipino television drama adaptation also aired in 2007. It was also dubbed in other languages including Arabic under the title (سالي, Sally) and was a huge success in the Arab World and widely popular, spanning reruns in the 1990s and early 2000s and was subsequently added to Netflix Middle East on November 19, 2020. Plot In 1885, Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower living in British-ruled India, enrolls his ten-year-old daughter Sara Crewe at the Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies in London. She excels in her studies and is loved deeply by her classmates and friends, but earns the hatred of class representative Lavinia Herbert and the grudge of the headmistress Miss Minchin. On the day of her eleventh birthday, Sara learns of her father's death and bankruptcy from an infuriated Miss Minchin, who decides to hire the orphaned girl as an unpaid maid in the school. Miss Minchin and Lavinia attempts to make Sara's life miserable and break her spirit, but with the help of her friends, Sara tries to endure all the hardships with her kindness and imagination. Characters