Hanshirô Iwai was born on August 8, 1927 in Tokyo, Japan as Tadayoshi Nishina. He was an actor, known for Ôsaka-jô monogatari (1961), Les hommes qui marchèrent sur la queue du tigre (1945) and Yagyû bugeichô (1957). He died on December 25, 2011 in Tokyo.