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".
北野武的《芳华》，致敬师父，更多的是老男人对过去的回忆和留恋。kitch，煽情，所以平庸，感染力远逊于原著文字。柳乐优弥还原了北野武的姿态、语气、抖肩膀眨眼睛抽嘴角等等小动作，也赋予了这个角色另类、不羁等特质，但没有北野武“硬汉”的灵魂。大泉洋师父表演最佳，门胁麦有亮点。
柳月优弥有演出北野武的神韵，拍的不错，虽然有戏剧化痕迹，但很多细节和情感还是非常触动我的，最后的长镜头蒙太奇不错。数十年过去了，年迈的北野武再台上唱起那首浅草小子的时候，又是怎样的心情呢。
好久没哭喜欢么爽了，煽情煽的漂亮啊。 故事真的太简洁了，冷静下来想想， 每一步都没有出乎意料，就是做的很扎实。
铃木保奈美还是好美啊！但影帝真的是过分努力还是一直让人出戏了
虽然觉得影帝比北野武颜值高了太多，但我还是喜欢影帝w
北野武不是车祸之后整容才左脸抽搐么，男主打小抽左脸让人跳戏，想问这部，北野武怎么看？ 难在他还活着，难在标志太过明显，难在制作水平被看个精光。
让人泪目的师徒情。两次和过去人生一刀两断的人自然有戏可看。师父教诲说生活中也要像个谐星，灵堂一幕的词很棒。师父演得更好，毫不造作，冷面热心。男主似并未深入人物，浮于表面。
大泉洋作为一个喜剧演员要拿到戏份这么重的一个角色还挺不容易的…但就表现来说柳乐优弥好歹是拿过戛纳影帝的，差距还是比较明显。
铃木保奈美还是好美啊！但影帝真的是过分努力还是一直让人出戏了
北海道巨星演得好好。说实话我是在去浅草寺初詣的那天，在浅草商店街看到的海报，而且还有北海道巨星大大的脸，我以为北海道巨星才是演主角的……好在片子很不错。以及我说麻里怎么那么漂亮有气质，原来是莉香！
一起跳踢踏舞吧。确实红鳉鱼。xixio. 影帝get到了。
柳乐优弥演北野武 蛮用力的 可是成名前彼得武时期那个面部一直抽搐的形象似乎不符合实际情况吧 印象最深刻的是铃木保奈美的师母 我甚至希望看到阿武写他父母的菊次郎与佐纪搬上银幕 时候铃木演他妈妈会咋样 而北野武演唱的歌曲浅草小子响起时还是很令人泪目的
得分：8
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
剧场后台众生百态，时运起落人生百味。单纯真诚的师徒情谊，北野武老头那首浅草kid真好听啊。戏也好歌也好，剧也好短视频也好，要放在舞台前被人评头论足，要做让观众喜欢的内容，又不能迎合观众，是让观众发笑，而不是被观众取笑。是很好的鼓励。
演的都很好，前期节奏有点慢后面才看入戏，最后煽情，时代变了很无奈
师父真的太好了。说好的和北野武演短剧，感觉一切都要好起来的时候，戛然而止。时代变了，有些人和事只能留在过去一样的感觉。
“这钱付完车费还有余的话 来找我 把零钱还我”“师父 火葬场的人跟我说 已经烧了一半了 所以只用付一半钱”
深见千三郎对于剧场喜剧艺术的见解，跟马三立很像：“不是被人笑，而是逗人笑。”“相声不是出怪声，不是超刺激。”郭德纲跟北野武也挺像的：说别人不敢说或不屑于说的段子，被曲协/漫才协会封杀，有钱之后大买名牌，极具攻击性的幽默与人格。其实老派的做艺人，多少都有些相似。艺人这路不好走，不种地，不上班，不做买卖，更不当官，却能让你心甘情愿地把口袋里的钱掏给他，这就是“艺”。因为我自己有“艺”，所以我不用谄媚观众，甚或而言，你能观赏到我的艺术，那是你的荣幸。这样，艺人无形中就引领了娱乐的风潮，掌握了关于“喜剧”的话语权，形成了团体，造就了行业。但无论到什么时候，艺人不能忘了艺，要不然，就只是个骗吃骗喝的凡人了。终于明白为什么《座头市》最后要跳踢踏舞了，原来是ビートたけし在致敬自己的师匠。
时代变迁造成的无奈，又造就了成功，笑中带泪，几场舞台剧一样的段落很精彩～
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