# The best films of 2011 (Kinema Junpo Best Ten)

Kaneto Shindo's Postcard tops the Japanese list and Polanski's The Ghost Writer the foreign one: Kinema Junpo's 2011 Best Ten for Japanese and foreign films.

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- Jul 29, 2020 · kobeeiga
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## Top 20

1. **Postcard** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Kaneto Shindo. Number one among Japanese films, the director's last work.
2. **Someday** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Junji Sakamoto. A mountain village and its kabuki tradition. Second among Japanese films.
3. **The King's Speech** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Tom Hooper. George VI and his stammer. Third among foreign films.
4. **Rebirth** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Izuru Narushima. A girl raised by her kidnapper, years later.
5. **Tokyo Park** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Shinji Aoyama. A student photographer and a woman in the parks.
6. **My Back Page** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobuhiro Yamashita. A young reporter and an activist around 1970.
7. **The Social Network** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — David Fincher. The birth of Facebook. Second among foreign films.
8. **Cold Fish** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sion Sono. Inspired by a real case around a tropical fish shop. Third among Japanese films.
9. **Tada's Do-It-All House** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tatsushi Omori. Two men running an odd-job business.
10. **The Ditch** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wang Bing. A labour camp during the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
11. **Black Swan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Darren Aronofsky. A ballerina takes on Swan Lake.
12. **Saudade** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Katsuya Tomita. Construction workers and immigrants in a provincial town.
13. **Moneyball** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bennett Miller. A general manager rebuilding a team with statistics.
14. **True Grit** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Coen brothers. A girl and a marshal on a revenge trail.
15. **Moteki** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hitoshi One. An awkward man who suddenly becomes popular with women.
16. **Hereafter** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Clint Eastwood. Three people touched by the afterlife.
17. **Incendies** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Denis Villeneuve. Twins travel to the Middle East following their mother's will.
18. **Another Year** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mike Leigh. A year with an older London couple and their friends.
19. **The Ghost Writer** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Roman Polanski. Number one among foreign films.
20. **Detective in the Bar** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Hajime Hashimoto. A private eye in Sapporo's Susukino.

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