Princess Sara
| Princess Sara | |
Logo from the opening of Princess Sara | |
| 小公女セーラ (Shōkōjo Sēra) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Created by | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Fumio Kurokawa |
| Produced by | Junzō Nakajima (Nippon Animation) Taihei Ishikawa (Fuji TV) |
| Written by | Keiko Mukuroji Ryūzō Nakanishi |
| Music by | Yasuo Higuchi |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| English network | |
| Original run | 6 January 1985 – 29 December 1985 |
| Episodes | 46 |
Princess Sara (Japanese: 小公女セーラ, Hepburn: Shōkōjo Sēra; lit. "Little Princess Sara"), also spelled as Princess Sarah for disambiguation purposes, is a Japanese anime television series that was 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 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 aired in 2007. It was also dubbed in other languages including Arabic under the title, Sally (سالي) 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 in November 2020.