Sometimes kids crawl through a wardrobe and wind up meeting a talking lion, like in The Chronicles of Narnia. Or maybe there’s an impossible train platform like in Harry Potter. Even a rundown bathhouse can be a world of wonder in the case of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. That’s the brilliance of fantasy: it leaves open the possibility that something larger-than-life is lurking just beneath the surface of our waking world. What’s really betwee…