
Spirited Away (2001): Not a Fairy Tale, but a Film About Asking for a Job
千と千尋の神隠し (2001)
What saves Chihiro isn't courage and it isn't magic. It's a job application. Miyazaki wrote it plainly in his own pitch document, and told an interviewer that Yubaba is really just the manager of the place where his heroine works.