Mei Kusakabe
A four-year-old girl in postwar Japan who befriends a group of spirits with her older sister.
Where is she from?
Mei is one of the two girls who serve as the main characters in Hayao Miyazaki's beloved 1988 animated fantasy movie, My Neighbor Totoro, generally considered one of the greatest animated movies of all time. She was voiced in the original release by Chioka Sakamoto, and then in the original english dub by Cheryl Chase. When Disney produced a rerelease in 2004 they went with a more celebrity-heavy cast and chose the Fanning sisters to voice Satsuki & Mei, with a then 6-year-old Elle Fanning voicing Mei.