Masahiro Shinoda
For his work on "Tora-san, the Good Samaritan", the previous entry in the "Otoko wa Tsurai yo" series, "Tora-san's Shattered Romance", and the following entry, "Tora-san's Love Call" (all 1971), Yoji Yamada tied for Best Director at the Mainichi Film Awards with Masahiro Shinoda. The German-language site molodezhnaja gives "Tora-san, the Good Samaritan" three and a half out of five stars.