The Samurai
Touch of Death
S6 • E1 Jan 5, 1964 24m
Shintarō, Tonbei and Shūsaku have the three mirrors which they use to uncover a map of the Wind Fort in a cave temple. Watching them is Jinkūrō the Owl, a Fūma ninja, supposedly drowned with the rest. Disguised as a blind masseur he comes to the inn where Tonbei, Shintarō and Shūsaku are staying, poisons Tonbei with a herb which causes paralysis then death and tries to force him to draw the map, which he had memorised. He is foiled because Shintarō, suspecting something like this would happen, had Tonbei unwittingly memorise a false map. Jinkūrō is killed in a duel." At the end Kotarō's sinister laugh is heard as Shintarō and co. realise he isn't dead after all. "Fūma are the wind. Beware, we shall come in the night, we shall come in the day and we shall get the map of that secret treasure - Fūma Kotarō is a deathless ninja," he warns them.
