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".
除开对于日本某些文化的不理解之外，电影讲的是传承与革新，个人觉得麻麻地
“我是谐星，八嘎牙路！”2021年底为数不多把我眼泪骗出来的电影，真的是诚意之作。整个故事的结构不死板但又不觉得混乱，全程都能很入戏。PS:就是踢踏舞一出现就让我想到海澜之家男人的衣柜😂
北野武终究还是没有谈上恋爱么，干嘛不让写这一部分，一个和母亲永远较真儿的小男孩如何和亲密关系相处，好奇这个。原来活了大半辈子，北野武最怀念的是最初的师徒情谊和当年蓬勃的自我。“与过去的人生一刀两断”说的就是不可抑制的自我成长，是一股不出发毋宁死的力量，谁拦我谁就被抛弃。每次上台前的舞步，无非是自我坚定地要来，所有的本事要被表达出来。他师父教他最厉害的地方在于打破生活逻辑，于细微处发现，做自己不要讨好任何人，以及，台下要不要搞笑无所谓，台上一定要极尽可能，要拼，要干，不能消磨在生活里，不能醉倒在情绪中。电视时代的师徒故事有点像何云伟李菁和郭德纲啊，师徒真是个说不清道不明的独特情感。
饭馆和师父一起逗笑满屋食客。最后长镜头穿越当年，泪目了。台下一个观众听相声，上厕所还得停下来等他，北野武和郭德纲谁抄谁？八岁的大儿子，姜文也用过。师父说得好啊：“不要被人笑，是要逗人笑。”
有情，有梦，当少年变成白发，初心依旧，愿你的爱能永远如霜雪之贞。
的确成功地让我笑中带泪。一个时代的冉冉升起必将伴随着另一个时代的悄然落幕，随着科技的迅速发展，人们的生活在变，兴趣在变，唯独不变的是人与人之间真挚的感情。我非常怀疑北野武本人会不会喜欢如此励志的表达方式，跟他的风格差距还挺大的。柳乐优弥撇嘴之类的神态模仿得其实还不错，但是太帅了，形似但神韵没有到位。大泉洋、铃木保奈美，特别是门胁麦太煽情了，还给到门胁麦非常多表演的镜头，在看的过程中反而逐渐忘记这是一部北野武的传记。
浅草出来的小子，对70年代的还原感令人惊讶。影帝演的彼得武真的认真努力了，就是感觉最后还是在为煽情而煽情。
日本电影不刻意煽情，认真地把发生过的事情记叙出来，它浓缩了人生的大道理，是在向我们讲述生活。
师徒情永远打动我😢柳乐老师拍这个想必感触颇深吧🥺
深深的師父與徒弟的感情。師父每次說八嘎雅路的時候，都好性感，哈哈哈。
電影拍出了一個「廣為人知」的名人的「不為人知」的一面。最後一顆鏡頭堪稱2021最佳長鏡頭，整部電影讓人驚喜又感動。各種元素和回憶配合montage相應疊加，鏡頭在小場景中的移動也讓人忍俊不禁。還有好幾處演員的表演和導演的處理也讓人動容。為什麼只有日本能拍出這樣的電影？
开篇这个声音和扮相真是幻视了，北野武还活着呢居然就出了传记很微妙哈哈，特别是对于北野武这样的人来说。柳乐优弥努力模仿歪嘴眨眼看着实在是很出戏了，北野武的故事的确很戏剧性，但拍得中规中矩过于戏剧化和尴尬煽情了，最感人的部分大概是浅草小子这首歌了。
人物转变很模棱两可，但意义更加是在于展现吧
这是一部地位应当不输于入殓师的电影。结尾的长镜头是神来之笔。
極富人情味的敘事，在懷古的鏡頭光線中主要映照的是愛徒與敬師，是表演家庭中的飄搖和扶持
哭死。竟然感觉北野武跟师傅学技的样子有些像大圣，仔细想想甚至精神内核也是一致的。
那些为梦想奋力拼搏的日子，永远是最动人的。
语速再快一点会更好。师傅太有范了，让人完全没办法注意北野武到底干啥了。
浅草老油条北野武。
真好...北野武大爷青春时代热血（创业）期的故事，连后来出轨离婚都那么干脆，净身出户，200亿日元（12亿+RMB）说给就给...了结发前妻，都70岁多了的老混蛋，还是有底气啊~这样的人还是太少了。
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