---
name: "Eric Nyari"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-nyari"
fi1m_id: "eric-nyari"
imdb_id: "nm3552229"
tmdb_id: 1409382
wikidata_id: "Q131894344"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "20 October 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:28:57.698049+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Eric Nyari

## Identity

Eric Nyari

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-nyari
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eric-nyari
- **IMDb ID:** nm3552229
- **TMDB ID:** 1409382
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131894344
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131894344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3552229/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1409382

Producer. Born 20 October 1981.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 20 October 1981
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131894344, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3552229/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1409382

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Black Box Diaries*](https://film.one/film/black-box-diaries.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Eric Nyari is an American film producer born on 20 October 1981. He is president of Cineric Creative and international representative for the film restoration company Cineric, Inc. Based in Tokyo and New York, he has produced numerous films in Japan and the United States, and has overseen 4K restorations of Japanese classics including Kenji Mizoguchi’s *Ugetsu* and Yasujirō Ozu’s *Late Spring*.

His credits include executive producer on *At Any Price* (2012) and *Another Happy Day* (2011), producer on *Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda* (2017) and *Black Box Diaries* (2024), and co-producer on *Salvation Boulevard* (2011). He has also produced *Happyend* (2024) and the short *Instruments of a Beating Heart* (2024). Nyari is the son of Balazs Nyari, president of Cineric, and is married to filmmaker Ema Ryan Yamazaki.

*Sources: imdb.com, dcdoxfest.com, de.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Black Box Diaries* (2024), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/black-box-diaries.md)

## Complete filmography (26)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Ozu Diaries* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Ainu Puri* (2024), Producer
- *Black Ox* (2024), Producer
- *Black Box Diaries* (2024), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/black-box-diaries.md)
- *Happyend* (2024), Producer
- *Instruments of a Beating Heart* (2024), Producer
- *The Making of a Japanese* (2024), Producer
- *Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus* (2023), Producer
- *Odoriko* (2022), Producer
- *I Was a Simple Man* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Temple Family* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Ainu Neno An Ainu* (2021), Consulting Producer
- *Ainu Mosir* (2020), Producer
- *Koshien: Japan's Field of Dreams* (2019), Producer
- *Rituals of Resistance* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Lovers on Borders* (2017), Producer
- *Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA* (2017), Producer
- *I Turn to Jello* (2016), Producer
- *Mountain* (2016), Producer
- *Young Bodies Heal Quickly* (2014), Producer
- *Odayaka* (2012), Producer
- *At Any Price* (2012), Executive Producer
- *Cut* (2011), Producer
- *Another Happy Day* (2011), Executive Producer
- *Salvation Boulevard* (2011), Co-Producer
- *The Tested* (2011), Associate Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2025: Best Documentary (Short Subject) (nominated), for *Instruments of a Beating Heart*
- 2025: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *Black Box Diaries*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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