After five years working in the corporate world, she turned to film and made her debut with the 2009 Sayonara Muffler which was shown at the Cineastes Organization Osaka EX and other festivals.
[5] In 2012, she released the short The Confessions of Figaro about four junior high school boys curious about sex.
[2] Amano's 2012 short fantasy Neverland in Gamagori about an eleven-year-old boy's adventure debuted at the 4th Okinawa International Movie Festival.
In a 2012 interview she said that she has had to take a part-time job to support her filmmaking but her "Striving to get ahead professionally" is probably the best way to "pave the way for more female directors in Japan.
"[8] Amano made her commercial film debut with the May 2014 No Touching At All based on Kou Yoneda's "boys' love" manga of the same name.