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