Her first non-solo DVD appearances were in the high action movie Bra Shooter.
In addition to modeling and acting, she currently plays for a Japanese soccer team called Team Spazio[2] Like many J-idols, Saori Yamamoto was also featured in a video game/DVD called Gal of the Sparrow 2, which she announced at 2005's Tokyo Game Show.
This DVD features other popular J-idols such as Chikako Sakuragi, Rio Natsume, Yuka Watanabe, Akari, Kaede Shimizu, Hitomi Okada and Hatsune Matsushima.
In 2011, she dated soccer player Kazuhisa Kawahara (then a member of Ehime FC), but the president of her agency at the time forced her to break up with him.
Cornered, she lost her mental balance, and decided to retire from the entertainment industry at the age of 26.