# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sayo-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:53:11.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sayo-yamamoto"
name: "Sayo Yamamoto"
slug: "sayo-yamamoto"
description: "Sayo Yamamoto  is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist. She is known for directing the critically acclaimed anime series Michiko & Hatchin, Yuri!!! on Ice, and Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. After graduating from the College of Art and Design in Tokyo, she began work at Studio Madhouse, where she had her directing debut at age 25."
tagline: "Japanese animator and animation director (1977-)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1977-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.3
  momentum:             1.477220432581684
  historical:           7.489784
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2010588/"
    handle:    "nm2010588"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E6%B2%99%E4%BB%A3"
    title: "山本沙代"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "سايو ياماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayo_Yamamoto"
    title: "Sayo Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayo_Yamamoto"
    title: "Sayo Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayo_Yamamoto"
    title: "Sayo Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayo_Yamamoto"
    title: "Sayo Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayo_Yamamoto"
    title: "Sayo Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E6%B2%99%E4%BB%A3"
    title: "山本沙代"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3474743"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump