Love Bite horror or comedy." Horrornews.net reviewer Lizzie Duncan "found none of the main characters that likeable, and this is the key reason why the entire thing seemed to drag on (despite being a relatively short film). ... The whole film is rather vile and crude..." Ellis Whitehouse, giving 1 out of 10 points, begins by referencing "Shaun of the Dead" and "Zombieland" and asks, "Is "Love Bite" the latest in an emerging trend of comedy-horror triumphs? No; it is the exact opposite"; he calls the script "pathetic" and the dialogue "basic, uninspiring, unintelligent and down-right insulting." Love Bite Love Bite is
Tora-san's Love Call Tora-san's Love Call Hoping to find rest from his wandering life, Tora-san returns home. He becomes infatuated with a widow and leaves to travel again, keeping his feelings secret. 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. "Tora-san's Love Call" was released theatrically on November 20, 1971. In Japan,