Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
很闷，又刻意的情节，只在最后“我们在哪里见过吗”情绪上来一点点。
对不起，ming是男是女怎么了吗？zyx是gay对剧情有影响吗?不都是“我爱你，但你不爱我”的故事吗？
还有那种内心深处的落寞
日本人真的好喜欢拍这样的爱情片，可无论看多少都看不腻也，那种平淡的可回忆起来又带着无限感情和思念，过去了就是过去了，可回忆还在，回忆里那份喜欢和当时的心境也还在。最后总会迎来新的朝霞
日本人真的好喜欢拍这样的爱情片，可无论看多少都看不腻也，那种平淡的可回忆起来又带着无限感情和思念，过去了就是过去了，可回忆还在，回忆里那份喜欢和当时的心境也还在。最后总会迎来新的朝霞
7.3分，每年对方生日时会想起，既轻盈又承重，既快乐又忧伤的回忆，浓厚到难以自拔的气氛在最后让观众陷进去。
3.7 确实 原来的那些人 后来成了片段 在某些时候 稍微想起一些
看了影评才能知道他的叙述方式
看了《地球之夜》后一直想再去看一遍，终于趁有池松壮亮和导演最后一次舞台挨拶的机会，赶紧买了票。
张子枫和吴磊唱《拥抱》的时候，我在怀念已经逝去的青春（《盛夏光年》）。今年最爱的院线之一。
打分不是因为片子，是为我心境。梦想过与你一同生活，却没办法忍受不与你联系，边走边想“为什么不追上来呢”的人是我，知道你确实做不到追上来的人也是我，与你在一起怎样都开心，却会缓慢地放弃我梦想，我需要清醒地生活，我需要被爱着生活，我知你不能，我知我不能，我喜欢你，我梦想过与你一同生活，好在我们结束在未建筑起我们的生活之前
结束即开始，倒叙的方式让这段感情更显遗憾和可惜，出色的演员使情感能够被更充沛饱满地呈现，是日本又一部出色的爱情电影。四星。
看完回想起很多
在深夜无人的商店街起舞吧。踮起脚尖，请你以我的掌心为支点旋转。休馆日偷偷溜进水族馆，不要被人发现呐，金色发光水母的正下方，屏住呼吸来接吻，你轻轻颤动的睫毛好长。“自由，看到这些鱼儿，感受到摆脱重力束缚的，无限的自由。”我说，可是你却提起寿司来，这可有点不妙。
以倒叙的形式讲述一场爱情，演员演技也很给力
真是细腻，能有刚好踩上拍的点，大爷讲真理呢
喜欢 日期也很妙 每年今日讲完了一整个故事
抓住了每个生日的节点铺开了每个阶段的爱恋
荒原狼们始终向往的是小市民那份在没有狂风暴雨的温和舒适的地带安居乐业的日子，而一旦让他们过了几天这样的日子，便会发狂。我想我要从这种日式的“普通”中毕业了。
没有那么好，也没有那么不好，平平淡淡中的真实，倒叙的手法会有回想的沉浸感，海洋馆、摩天轮下、午夜街头，感谢可以回想……
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