The top 20 films of "Eigakan Taisho 2011" were just announced today!

The "Eigakan Taisho" is a survey where the staff from all independent movie theaters in Japan are able to vote for the movies from the previous year that they had enjoyed screening to the masses the most.

Due to the nature of their job, many of the cinema operators get in contact with a great variety of films throughout a year. From big blockbusters to low-budget films, from foreign treasures to domestic pearls.

This time, the visually stunning "Kokuhaku" (Confession) managed to rank first among all of them, followed by the South Korean movie, "Breathless", and the American mega-hit, "Avatar".

Check out the top 20 below!

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01 - "Kokuhaku" aka "Confession" (Nakashima Tetsuya)
02 - "Breathless" (Yang Ik-joon)
03 - "Avatar" (James Cameron)
04 - "Toy Story 3" (Lee Unkrich)
05 - "Inception" (Christopher Nolan)
06 - "Akunin" (Lee Sang-il)
07 - "District 9" (Neill Blomkamp)
08 - "Le Concert" (Radu Mih?ileanu)
09 - "13 Assassins" (Kudo Eiichi)
10 - "The Secret in Their Eyes" (Juan Jos� Campanella)
11 - "Caterpillar" (Wakamatsu Koji)
12 - "Kaitanshi Jokei" aka "Sketches of Kaitan City" (Kumakiri Kazuyoshi)
13 - "(500) Days of Summer" (Marc Webb)
14 - "Kawa no Soko Kara Konnichiwa" (Ishii Yuya)
15 - "The Borrower Arrietty" (Ghibli - Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
16 - "The Hurt Locker" (Kathryn Bigelow)
17 - "Invictus" (Clint Eastwood)
18 - "Haru tono Tabi" (Kobayashi Masahiro)
19 - "Let the Right One In" (Tomas Alfredson)
20 - "Ototo" (Yamada Yoji)

Source: Oricon