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".
昭和风满满的庶民电影，是当下日本电影里的珍贵的大熊猫。没有刻意聚焦社会边缘人群，呈现出生活中最常见的“失意人”。
没见过全员这么烂的演技 救命啊 比我演技还烂 可不可以不要扭来扭去说话吗…？日本人为啥非要这么做作的演戏啊 和吴昕有什么区别 为了苏打看完的 到底是在干什么啊……不知道说啥了
故事就挺一般的，泽田研二和苏打演技还是在线，作为松竹映画百年纪念，还是mark一下~
致敬小津原节子福尔摩斯二世，然而主角还是太薄了，谁会共情一个年轻的时候一紧张就窜稀，老了又是个彻底老废物的人物呢
致敬小津原节子福尔摩斯二世，然而主角还是太薄了，谁会共情一个年轻的时候一紧张就窜稀，老了又是个彻底老废物的人物呢
天哪…居然能把这样的题材拍得又尬又没意思，其中关于整个片子核心——电影相关的致敬也少之又少，显得电影这个主题仿佛随便置换成其他主题也没什么影响。明明这么一个关于如何在暮年实现往昔梦想、弥补过错的故事怎么拍都很容易打动人心，看在洋次郎和苏打贡献主题曲的份上勉强给个合格分。
果然是很“文学”的一部电影呀。
“想拍电影的都不是什么正经人。”话说我在考浙传一个专业笔试的时候，题目应该是写一个电影构思，里面我也写了“演员从银幕里走了出来”这种当时觉得绝妙的点子，也说了这是致敬巴斯特·基顿的《福尔摩斯二世》。那时的我跟电影里兴奋讲述自己剧本的乡狠狠地共情了，当然最后这个专业没拿证哈哈哈。这是一部拍给爱电影的人，更是拍给学电影、拍电影的人看的电影，即使没那么精妙绝伦，但对于我来说，很难不感动。
咩酱+苏打，还要什么自行车，Lily大概是本色出演，旺志郎长大了，能演内敛的小伙纸了，真好，照片是个泪点，男二是好人，景子姐姐还是美的。“一个人到老了的年纪，中间会发生很多很多事。”片尾曲苏打唱的，听完不亏。开拍那段：“您说得都对，那就按照前辈的意思来拍吧，反正我也拍不好。”想法和剧本只是第一步。真正做的时候发现自己是垃圾，呜哇就哭了，好不容易能拍的电影搞砸了，一蹶不振，老了还不承认是自己搞砸的。这些小小的叙事，或许篇幅不多，但其实也是，十分的表达用七分去讲。
友情分三星 有点失望
作为向松竹百年致敬的电影实在太一般了。热爱电影却因为挫折逃离电影、只给家里带来无尽困难的男主，自我牺牲要给男主幸福的女主，默默守护女主的男二……人物都没有魅力，非常扁平化。迷影的快乐也在电影里没有太多体现，除了对小津的致敬/吐槽。北川景子的昭和女星是略有意思的一个角色，想致敬原节子？虽然感觉扮相只有形似而缺乏神似（倒是莫名像张雨绮）。最后带着男主离世不知道为何让我想起了《千年女优》，时光催人老，不老的都是寄托了我们最初最强烈情感的神。
電影人的浪漫。可惜個人覺得關於電影的部分有一點少，浪漫也還不夠。“電影是用來感受的，不是用來思考的”。“我不需要他給我幸福，而是我要給他幸福”。“只能選擇一種方式後悔，人生就是這麼回事”。
前半段确实有些拖沓。后半段几乎是泪流满面看完的。跟自己对于中国电影行业的失望和质疑还有疫情对于行业的负面影响有很大关系。作为78岁的新人，如果能在电影院中死去，也许是电影人最后的荣耀吧！敬电影之神！
日式神经质真的好好笑，温情的部分也做得很工整和老练，看多了文艺片再看这种喜剧已然是一种治愈... 闪回有一点凌乱，但两个时期对比着看确实有点唏嘘的效果。结尾恍惚间看到了《大鱼》的影子，在对美好往事的追忆中死去大概没有痛苦吧。
还好看完了，前90分钟都是为最后30分钟作的铺垫
马苏奇大叔演技炸裂！！也许在没有看过原著的情况下观影体验更好一点 这竟然是茨威格生前最后的一部中篇作品改编的
短短两小时就让我不想嫁菅田将晖了。（男人至死要赌博
看到山田洋次的新电影依然会感动，很好的故事，拜托导演继续拍下去吧！
去年北影节最后一天的收官之作.前后穿插的叙事跨越了几十年.每次场景转换不禁唏嘘时光在人身上留下的痕迹.对影迷来说在电影院看电影到死真的也是圆满了.
这里面有一个故事怎么跟伍迪艾伦一部电影那么像….
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