Anna Sasaki — When Marnie Was There Character Profile

About Anna Sasaki

12-year-old foster girl with low self-esteem and asthma. Sent to the countryside for summer, she befriends a mysterious girl named Marnie, uncovers her family history, and gains emotional closure.

Anna Sasaki — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Sara Takatsuki

Appears in

When Marnie Was There (2014)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (7)

• Anna Sasaki — Temporal Grandmother — Marnie (Kasumi Arimura)

  Revealed to be Anna's grandmother

• Anna Sasaki — Professional Teacher — Art Teacher (Hiroyuki Morisaki)

  Anna's art teacher at school

• Anna Sasaki — Professional Mentor — Hisako (Hitomi Kuroki)

  Older woman who paints and provides guidance to Anna

• Anna Sasaki — Social Friend — Marnie (Kasumi Arimura)

  Anna meets and befriends Marnie at the mansion

• Anna Sasaki — Family Foster Aunt — Setsu Oiwa (Toshie Negishi)

  Yoriko's relative and Anna's foster aunt

• Anna Sasaki — Family Foster Uncle — Kiyomasa Oiwa (Susumu Terajima)

  Yoriko's husband and Anna's foster uncle

• Anna Sasaki — Family Foster Mother — Yoriko Sasaki (Nanako Matsushima)

  Anna's foster mother who cares for her

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More characters from When Marnie Was There

• Marnie (Kasumi Arimura)
• Yoriko Sasaki (Nanako Matsushima)
• Kiyomasa Oiwa (Susumu Terajima)
• Sayaka (voice) (Hana Sugisaki)
• Setsu Oiwa (Toshie Negishi)
• Nanny (Kazuko Yoshiyuki)
• Dr. Yamashita (voice) (Yo Oizumi)
• Marnie's Mother (voice) (Yuhko Kaida)
• Toichi (voice) (Ken Yasuda)
• Elderly Lady (Ryoko Moriyama)
• Marnie's Father (voice) (Shigeyuki Totsugi)
• Elderly Lady 2 (voice) (Bari Suzuki)