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".
电影里，男主角评价他师父的电影：单看各个镜头都没什么感觉，但组接在一起后却神奇地好看，镜头之间一定住着电影之神吧！——大概这就是我对这部电影的评价，温柔，可爱，充满感情～
#BJIIF2021# “看电影看到死”的一生，老土又浪漫的故事～菅田将晖怎么那么可爱啊！
2.12 本子真差，山田老爺子一把年紀還在corona最艱難的時期拍這種命題作文。只有テアトルの銀幕（＝川越スカラ座）連接現實部分最好了。咩太可愛嗚嗚嗚
..老年的戏份实在看不下去 不过最后影院那段算是全场最佳吧 顺带渣老年男主豆瓣影人页凭啥是如此英俊的年轻照而宫本信子就是老太太照？
一个人的梦想 会带领他走向终点 每个风流男子大概都会有一个痴情女子相伴终身 但最终还是得不到善终 跟着别人跑了
#2021BJIFF#北影节最后一场，写给电影人的情书～
老式但朴素的愿望。结尾。开罗紫玫瑰和小津捏他。几次老年现实切年轻回忆可太犯规了。“我要给他幸福！”“谁TM管你们说什么台词，老子要拍海浪！”没想到听岩代太郎的许愿实现在这部上了…@bjiff
依稀可见浪子回头情怀，山田洋次这部算比较平庸的一部，也算是新冠疫情呼吁保护电影行业宣传片了。
单从平平淡淡讲个故事来说，我还是挺喜欢的。
期待一个九十多岁的老人有所创新，说明你不适合看山田洋次。
6.0明显看出几年前阿凡索卡隆《罗马》的影响。但影片内容与影像风格严重割裂。
真是老一辈电影人的表达方式，想想《福尔摩斯二世》距今都快一百年了，今天流媒体崛起影院衰落，可能以后的电影观众都很少会有影院/银幕情结了。考虑到山田洋次的年纪，不忍再用“过时”一类的说法，更何况他也许只是想了却自己的心愿。而新一代的电影人则必须找到一条新的路。【6】
各种违和感...某种意义而言，这部松竹100年纪念作品如实反映了如今“松竹”的XX
在歌颂堕落混蛋即是男性魅力，女性以终生宽容忍让为美德的导演自传回忆电影里，电影之神最终降临并恩赐一场多重文本消弭一处无上完满的银幕之梦，人生善终，无悔恶棍的梦想赌上的是身边众人的幸福。那是巴斯特基顿，伍迪艾伦，也是山田洋次共享的梦境，有的成了泛黄废稿，有的载入影史熠熠生辉。作为新冠时代耄耋之年的导演回首青春，献礼电影的情怀之作，温情和呼吁虽真挚动人，电影本身已和真正cinema千差万别，徒有廉价感怀元素展陈。北川景子饰演的昭和映画女神从东京物语的黑白画框徐徐抬眸落向镜头正中，向着寂寥萧条的暮色影厅走来，眼泪不可能不潸然而下，落泪并不为电影剧本过时的价值倒退和美化刻板性别角色范式的企图，热爱电影之人，无论何时听到旧时语言都会勾动乡愁，正如穿越造梦的老套故事，搬到任何文化和时代背景都能打动观众。
一步纯粹的影人追忆影像，除了咩酱没有太多亮点
好割裂。并没有预想中的那么聚焦キネマ本身，又或许是过多因素干涉了脚本和方向。要非常努力才能把年轻和年老时的角色联系在一起。当然是落了眼泪的，但感动之泪更多不是因为电影本身。生气的部分就不多讲了，展示的家族观比上世纪的东京家族是一种后退。以及，为苏打和lily叔多一星。
年代戏的部分太好了，是那种最老派最纯真的好，每个角色都在发光，电影之神只存在于其中的一半，剩下一半尽显格格不入的疲惫。
周日县民折扣价，早上十点半的剧场算满，中途开始旁边的大爷开始掏手帕。
印象最深的是永野芽郁抬眼看着菅田将暉，没有说什么但眼里满满的感情，真是太美了！男主的才华他的执着，在老年后什么也没展现出来，总觉得老年部分少了点什么。寺岛忍，这个相比起来铁石心肠的女儿我觉得演得好自然，北川景子真的太美太适合黑白片了！这片儿让我感觉最好的就是这三个女人。淑子从始自终都更喜欢ゴウちゃん，跟他结了婚可能会后悔，但如果不跟他在一起就一定会后悔。即使ゴウちゃん欠了高利贷出了轨也不忍心看他一个人生活没有人照顾他。虽然并不是一个爱情故事的片儿但这部分是最震撼我的。在已知后来的情况下去看回忆杀，很义无反顾，我很容易被这种感动。至于跟电影的羁绊，被电影拯救的部分，都太碎了，不提也罢。
私人黑白影像，和罗马一样不应该用故事片的好坏来评判。舞台剧形式感重了点，亦是来自导演自身戏剧经历。
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