But can she hold her own against the mercenary proprietress of the bathhouse? Will she find a way to change her parents back and return home? Or is she trapped in a world of scary monsters, adorable soot-balls, Stink gods, and murderous No-Faces?
Chihiro desperately tries to escape the nightmare, but all her attempts fail until the same young man comes to her rescue and instructs her in how to survive. Too late, darkness falls, and Chihiro rushes back to find her parents transformed. However, they find that someone still has a restaurant running, so while the mister and missus pig out on the delectable eats, Chihiro takes a walk and discovers a bathhouse…and a young man who most URGENTLY warns her away. On the way to their new home, amid Chihiro’s whining and grumbling, they take a wrong turn and end up at what they assume is a run-down former theme park. Synopsis: Ten-year-old Chihiro is uprooted from her home and her school, presumably due to her dad’s job. These sets are definitely geared towards the collector's market as the film itself and the encodes are no different than the 2017 Shout Factory "barebones" release, but those new extras and fancy new packaging makes for a VERY appealing set that will tug at the "want strings" of those of us who like beefy collector's editions. Shout Factory has done a great job of re-releasing all of the Disney released Studio Ghibli films over the last few years, and this marks the THIRD giant collector's edition of some of their classic films (the first being My Neighbor Totoro, and the second being Princess Monnonoke), Where we get a giant chipboard box to house the film, plus the official soundtrack on CD, and a large artwork flip set to look through as well.