Not only in Japan is the job hunt excruciating at times but while in Germany the job hunt start only after you graduated (maybe one or two months earlier) in Japan the Naitei are given as early as a year before graduation which means you have to start searching about a year and a half in advance. Even the professors at university take this into consideration and give the students a lot of free time.
It’s sad to see the heroine without job at the end of the movie but I’m afraid it is reality for many