Spirited Away and the monomyth

Although Spirited Away is an eastern film, It was still relatively straight forward to fit into the monomyth archetype. While comparing this film to others, it is surprising to see how closely they are connected in relation to the monomyth. The fact that two films made on opposite sides of the world and in completely different cultural settings could be so closely related is quite surprising. While I can say I strongly agree with most all of my group's chart, while reading other groups observations it led me to reconsider what I thought to be the "goddess" in our story. Our group initially interpreted the role of the goddess as the person who tempts the hero to stray from his or her beliefs or goals. Going on this initial interpretation we selected No-face as our goddess figure in the story. No-face defiantly fulfills this role in tempting Sen to be greedy throughout the story. On the other hand, while reading other peoples charts I noticed that they tended to interpret the goddess as a love interest rather than a temptress. Another thing that was slightly different than some of the other films on the list was the fact that the "rescue from without" was the hero doing the rescuing rather than the hero being rescued. At this point in the story Sen's parents are helpless pigs and Sen must confront Yubaba to save them from slaughter. While we did interpret this as rescue from without, we did have to stretch the formulae a bit due to the fact that rescue from without applies strictly to the hero. Should the hero always be the one to be rescued in the end, or do you think there could be some leeway when it comes to some the of the monomythic rules?