The Samurai (1962)

Danger Is the Same Face (5x11)

:

Kagerō Jinnai boasts he is the most skilled of the Fūma. Shintarō, Tonbei and Shūsaku are returning to Edo and stop at an inn at Fujisawa. Outside, Tonbei duels with a Fūma ninja and eventually kills him. Inside the inn, Jinnai seizes the mirrors briefly in Shintarō's room but is wounded by Shintarō and drops them. He escapes leaving a trail of blood which Tonbei follows up into the ceiling and in a room nearby sees a man asleep in bed who looks exactly like the ninja he killed. An old man in an adjoining room has been injured in the fight. He is desperate to get home to bring his sick grandchild some medicine so Shintarō takes him. Tonbei discovers the man in bed who looks like the dead ninja is dead himself and realises the old man is a ninja. The old man reveals himself as Jinnai and demands the mirrors from Shintarō. There is a fight and Shintarō is surrounded by multiple Jinnais. Jinnai explains all his men look like him. Shintarō takes the two mirrors and tosses them away. The real Jinnai runs to them and is cut down by Shintarō He tells the other men they are now free.