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".
山田洋次已经有寅次郎系列垫底了，其他作品无非都是锦上添花，他在日本影史的地位肯定不会低，92岁还在拍在亚洲甚至世界范围内也已经可以封神了，特别是对比那些年纪小四五十岁却已经无片可拍的导演简直天上地下。
过程中的细节蛮有趣的，但是结尾好像和过程中讲述的不是一个主题，到底是想讲对电影的爱呢还是讲和妻子的感情呢，可能导演自己也还没想明白
新冠的戏份过于生硬和无聊，这种强行加入的情节，让人感觉太过于游离，但即使没有这些，这剧情也都是跟梦游一样，一会儿天上一会儿地下的毫无逻辑和过度，为了推动情节而强行的硬掰，实在看不出这是个老导演的作品，这想问山田洋次：廉颇老矣，尚能饭否？
只能选择一种方式去后悔，淑子你后悔了吗？还是强忍泪水说自己是幸福的
我这个干净整洁的女孩子👧实在无办法共情那个“脏老头”👴
“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。
我没办法把菅田将晖饰演的年轻版阿乡和老了以后的阿乡联系起来，在我心中，他从来都跟“风流成性”没有半点关系。所以最后的结局恕我直言，我不能接受。
男主年轻像柘植物义务春画里的人，老了像柘植义春本人
剧情很俗套且充满着自我感动，像男主这种混蛋人设，导演还妄想用所谓“电影之神”的情怀来打动观众吗？如果没有菅田将晖压根不会看。
永野芽郁就值五星，谁不喜欢这样小鹿一样的赤诚少女呢！但这男主就不是东西，这样的家庭观也不是个东西。虽说如何选择后悔，就是人生，但年轻妹子还是不要轻易被年轻浪子的所谓才气蒙蔽了双眼。对疫情下戏院与电影产业的几笔带过，也算是松竹100年的时代缩影了吧。电影之神啊请保佑他们（和电影院里的我们）吧！
把茨威格小说改了人物设计和背景，纳粹想用监禁从奥地利律师嘴里套出密码，却不想监禁成就了一位象棋大师。电影里是单独被关在酒店房间里隔离了一年，出来后战胜世界冠军，不知道疫情之后国内会出现多少象棋大师。男主角前些年有部电影《希特勒回来了》，更好看。
那么现代人看的短视频，大水漫灌的网络文是吗？
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！
茨维格小说改编的故事。还不错，至少比大国的电影好看。人最高贵的是精神，唯有精神不可灭。
#BJIFF 2021.9.17#大伙笑的时候，学电影的我哭成了狗。
如果你觉得自己做的不好，为什么不从现在开始改变呢？
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
贩卖情怀，不过看电影到死=浪漫到死。永野芽郁是这部电影之光
男主演技炸裂，令人叹服。改编自著名的同名小说，故事的底子就非常好，加上闪回手法的运用，使故事显得更玄乎深奥（每次看闪回镜头，总要想这是过去还是现在、现实还是虚幻？总觉得脑子不太好使）。电影表达的主旨还是相当明晰的：身体被禁锢是可怕的，所以保有精神的自由显得尤为重要！
对一个人心智的摧残竟然会比身体上的折磨更让人痛苦。
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