Baaya

* Based on Joan G. Robinson's novel When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Marnie). Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the sand dunes and around the water. There is a house, the Marsh House, which she feels she recognizes — and she soon meets…

The story follows Benio, who lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking officer in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy; contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions instead of the traditional kimono, and is not…