Isamu Hirabayashi’s Sight and Sound Ballot (2022)

Ten films selected by Isamu Hirabayashi for Sight and Sound’s 2022 directors’ poll of the Greatest Films of All Time.

Films appear in the order BFI lists them on the ballot page; the ballot does not rank them.

Source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/isamu-hirabayashi

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2. The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
3. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
4. The Elephant Man (1980)
5. Rashomon (1950)
6. Spirited Away (2001)
7. The Turin Horse (2011)
8. Hard to Be a God (2013)
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)