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".
有些邂逅，虽然短暂如朝露浮萍，也已经成为一生一世的绝响。
同样是2021年的爱情片，有村架纯 明显。。在花束中的爱情表现得更好
和动画相比，改编很大。 （我猜是为了适应当下的性别观念）给女主添加了很多对话，本来动画所体现的人物互动，是剑心自己思考，巴沉默的“深情注视”。而改编后，巴主动问剑心，剑心之后回答她。这种人物互动的改编，改变了动画表现的氛围，原本剑心是孤身一人，在巴沉默却深情的陪伴下，逐渐有了改变，但真人版的巴，更加主动。 添加的对话，或许不适当。我挺喜欢的细节：
最终的最终章，回到了剑心何以成为剑心的本质上。是为了崇高的理念、新时代的建立而仗剑杀人，还是脚踏实地去珍惜身边最微细的幸福。在时代的洪流中，没有绝对的正义，选择了一种理念，就只能自欺欺人地坚持下去。革命无不流血，这些血到底该不该流。“剑是凶器，剑术是杀人的伎俩，无论用多美丽的借口掩饰，这始终是事实。”一纵一横两道刀疤，那就是正义的原罪。
悲剧是把美好的东西毁灭给人看。爱是美好，死亡是毁灭，不折不扣的悲剧。悲剧的主角不是光明中推动时代的掌权者，不是名垂历史的公众人物，而是在阴暗中连名字也不透露的刽子手，是深闺里等待未婚夫的下级武士女儿，在芸芸众生中默默无声。所以他们的悲剧是这个时代下时常有的事，也是接下来时常有的事。
总觉得有村架纯脸上好似挂着若有若无的虚伪又无辜的微笑……
本片的动作场面不多却凌厉，情感戏更多，有村架纯的表演更吸引人。
这部文戏过多，动作戏一般，最后bgm响起来的时候DNA动了，村花好看呀！
追忆篇的OVA被称为史上最强OVA，带着如此严苛的预期来看这一部，也完全没让人失望。少了动作戏，多了细腻的情感表达，虽然节奏略显缓慢，文戏也中规中矩，但武戏刀刀见血，细节全部到位。佐藤健的表演很不错！雪代巴也基本令人满意，只不过要完美还原雪代巴，实在太难了。如果说有什么遗憾的话，我想若能早几年拍就好了，毕竟幕末的剑心才十几岁。
打戏不错，虽略带夸张但也颇具美感。纵横爱恨的两道疤。
《人誅篇》帶給我的失望，《追憶篇》都補償回來了，相較於前者失控的群戲和剪輯，這一部專注於塑造劍心和巴，即便女間諜愛上仇人的戲碼不新鮮了，也拍得能夠讓人忘記薰才是劍心的最後歸宿，再加上對新舊交替亂世的刻畫和乾淨利落的動作戲呈現，明明是真正意義上的系列開篇卻異常悲壯，為系列畫下了一個完美的句號。無論《人誅篇》怎麼拖系列後腿，《浪客劍心》五部曲都是日本真人漫改的巔峰，而且目前看來連潛在的挑戰者都沒有。
这一部承载着填补以往的缺、漏的使命。
村花還挺好看的，拍得很流水賬。新撰組倒是挺符合我心目中的形象。
真正的全局展开反而没有在人诛篇里寥寥几个画面来的触动
Rurouni Kenshin The Beginning 2021 Blu-ray 1080p AVC TrueHD 7.1-DIY@TTG，2:16:51.036 (h:m:s.ms)，43.98 GB
在五部中是第二好看的，特别比起《人诛》那种过分中二的氛围，追忆篇是克制的戏说历史。个人的悲欢离合和幕府末年的诸多重大事件交织，唯一可惜的是没有篇幅交代「拔刀斋」的信念从何而来（以及比古清没机会出场呜呜）
唯一一部拔刀即见血 但是太少咯 ps竟然不把激情戏拍出来
就喜欢里面的刀刀见血，不啰嗦的剧情，看得真的太过瘾了，比动漫更过瘾，因为这就是现实啊，开启新时代必然见血啊，喜欢 喜欢 太喜欢，女主角喜欢，神谷熏小姐我也非常喜欢 ，两个女人给剑心带来了更加丰满的人生
本来以为会滑坡，毕竟ova追忆篇一贯被称作神作，但是电影版竟然不落下风。然后终于看到天诛人斩时，剑心有多凶狠凌厉了，相比之下，维新以后战斗力下降的厉害。好看，这系列彻底结束了吧？期待国内能引进，想去电影院看，然后特别可惜电影版没了动画版里，维新大业成功前夕，高杉晋作吐血而亡的悲壮，但是见到了，剑心与冲田总司两个绝顶高手之间的对决，好看
对前行的路，有些许疑惑，获得与失去，会让自己看清更多，有时候，许多事都身不由己，但仍需坚持下去，为了更好的未来。
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