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".
1.作为电影而言，整体很平，观感一般。可从私人情感出发，关于北野武的电影怎么能不看呢。书已经看过，所以故事大体能猜到。2.插曲“浅草小子”以前单曲循环多遍，但北野武一开嗓唱，我依旧很感动。3.柳乐优弥扮演老年北野武，那个妆啊，一言难尽，真是诡异，简直像1968年《人猩星球》里的猩猩扮相。4.年轻时就脸部抽搐，这个点改得不好，除了表现演技外，没有任何作用。5.得遇良师，人生大幸（本片只是聚焦师生情，剔除了原作其他的内容）。
6.5
踢踏舞，高跟鞋的梗，“如果打车钱还有剩的话，记得拿来还给我”，永远的师徒，永远的浅草法兰西座。
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？
一直代入吉田修一的《国宝》。悼词这段很特别了
大家可能都以为外表凶悍残暴的北野武的故事可能会是一个二五仔的成长故事，可看过他自传的就会知道他的经历真的就是一个很鸡汤式的小伙奋斗史。影片中主角演员刻意表现的面部抽搐总让我觉得不爽，毕竟北野武是后来车祸才出现的面部神经损坏造成的，这样的表演稍显刻意，可都不妨碍这是一部搞笑下充满泪点的师徒情义的温情故事
演技：8
这是北野武人生中的转折点之一，但由此就感觉北野武人生的每个阶段都好炙热，希望大家都能度过炙热的人生。
拖拉了一點 但是還是好感動啊 北野武不是車禍以後才有點抽抽 這個怎麼從這會就開始了
拍的太过好电影的好电影，又觉得反而不是好电影了。看完就觉得何のためもない。。。。
最后我还以为北野武真人出场做彩蛋，然而始终没有回头，原来本尊并没有来。为什么？导演不想破坏观影的浸淫感？
2021M107/7.5 其实段子就是生活啊，让人哭着笑又笑着哭。时代的变迁是再有梦想的人也难以力挽狂澜的了，不要说放弃了梦想，明明是没有第二条路可走。年轻版北野武复刻的稍显刻意，着意于形态动作，到中后段抛弃了模仿反而更显神似，红色高跟鞋的默契让人泪奔。
爱死浅草这首歌了，片子把重点放在了师徒情上而不是北野武的奋斗史，所以整体看下来，师父更像是主角，其实感觉老郭的故事也挺适合拍成电影的哈哈
对这种电影真是没有抵抗力，对深见千三郎和北野武师徒情谊的描绘含蓄而有力量。“谐星不要被人笑，要逗人笑”，“不要讨好观众，要告诉观众什么是有趣的”，这些云淡风轻地说出的话，值得铭记在心。
莫名的情绪感染，浅草那首歌只要一出现就想哭…哈哈。柳乐优弥依然不错，北野武老年仿妆很努力了但太出戏了，真希望做两分钟脸盲。
第3494-加一星给两位主演。演北野武难度挺大，尤其柳乐优弥外形颜值上与北野武差距这么大，痕迹肯定有，能不突兀已经很不错了。以前没看过大泉洋的戏，能与柳乐优弥平分秋色不容易。
虽然但是，抽搐不是车祸造成的吗。如果所有喜剧演员都能明白，扮丑不如告诉观众什么是有趣的，电影里也能少一点屎尿屁吧。
今年看的網飛原創日本電影，表現真的都很不錯，本片是北野武版火花+喜劇開場，師徒情動人，講北野武開始拍電影前，在漫才圈打滾的日子。對北野武的認識，就是從凶暴的男人開始，對在這之前的他一無所知，所以還滿訝異平常都面癱嚴肅到爆的他，竟然是喜劇出身，而且還是漫才舞台表演，果然影帝也要由影帝來詮釋，才有說服力。柳樂優彌的表演很棒，成功抓住北野武的神韻與講話方式，和大泉洋的師徒情意外地動人，本來以為是師徒鬧不合拆夥的電影，結果北野武其實比我想的還忠心耿耿，對師父的愛是每年都固定去上香，師徒情真的有感動到我，透過漫才演繹自身的悲哀，笑著笑著就想哭了，師父好落魄，但是看著徒弟成功好驕傲。結尾致敬鐵達尼號結尾，同樣的佈景用魔幻寫實的方式一鏡到底重現，北野武成名前待的法蘭西座，每個角落都充滿著他年輕時的回憶。
剧团一人可以啊，可能是当今日本最接近北野武路线的搞笑艺人了吧。
两个段落特别棒，一个是阿武偷穿师父鞋子表演的闪回，最后在去电视台说漫才call back；另一个段落是：从最温馨欢乐的师父与徒弟相见，转到最悲剧的师父丧生，再接上祭拜告别时用师父的意外丧生讲了笑话，情绪的起伏非常精妙，从喜到悲，再到悲中有喜的转变，还call back了师父让他在生活中都要练习搞笑。非常精妙！
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