Born in Hiroshima in 1991, Yamamoto studied film at Tokyo Zokei University and Tokyo University of the Arts, under Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Suwa Nobuhiro. His graduation film, Whispering in a Small Voice (2018), was selected for the Marseille International Film Festival. His second feature, After the Fever(2023), starring Hashimoto Ai and Nakano Taiga, screened at the Busan International Film Festival.
