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".
迷影向的电影，剧情最后收束的很不错，演员的一些表演竟然让人笑出声来，这才是喜剧可以有的样子
爱情线很糟。
雖然有日本傳統父權主義的影響，但感情表達還是很真摯，感人。
很激动地看到有电影，发现还是原著好看，我更喜欢原著的旁观者视角
还有两个比较个人的point。一是很久没见到的今井翼，大眼睛醒目忍不住一直盯着看。一是最后纪念了本来要出演老年主人公的志村健，结合片中后半段的现实背景实在唏嘘...
昭和组全员可爱 没有认出野田洋次郎 感觉是一部因为疫情少了很多情节的剧 所以苏打最后做个编剧不是挺好 看的时候又哭又笑但看完确实也没记得些什么 淑子老了之后性格跟之前差太多了吧
步替爸爸念出感言的时候
时间流逝，多年后我们实现了年轻的梦想。
#BJIFF 4.5 好了 to-do list上又多了一个开个艺术电影院（更要亏了。。）这是给影迷的童话：只要把时间尺度拉长，一切都变得温柔了。菅田的魅力在花束里没能get但是这部里为了梦想激情澎湃的时候好帅！本当にありがとう😊
最后居然看哭了。时代的结束多么落寞。（世界上没有比咩酱更可爱的女孩子了吧）
为什么一直没人改编原著，因为难嘛，全篇心理描写，怎么好改的。这部还行，尽量做到心理描写的外化，故事情节合理化，已经不完全是原著的轨迹，也可以理解
松竹百年作，确实有点作，这么自私的人生不讨人喜，北川景子倒是很养眼。
交错时空的表现手法很好，但是悬疑诡异的气氛似乎不同于原著。如果女主角换人就更好了，虽然妻子的角色无关紧要。
很多人应该不明白淑子的选择吧，正因为这样他们并不相信爱情~
抛开迷影情结不谈，キネマの神様完全掩盖了男主对妻子和女儿长期剥削的本质：妻子爱我不舍得和我离婚，所以我可以随便差遣，女儿用自己工资帮我还高利贷，我继续赌马喝酒，那是我的人生价值啊！而且结尾也看得我整个梗住，敢情女演员才是心之所向？北川景子的昭和造型在这部里特别美，相对来说回忆部分是比较出彩的。
7.5。年轻的部分个人很喜欢，热情、爱情、制片厂同事的情谊和生活，都有闪光。老年的部分或许有意掠过糟心的争吵和痛苦，企图留住衰老最后的状态和执念，却因为中间经历的缺失，未能靠台词支撑起怅然的往事难回首。
女人给了男人幸福，男人却用自甘堕落回报女人。ps淑子也太可爱了吧！
根据茨威格名篇改编，只是原著中在船上发生的故事改为主角头脑中的臆想。电影从另一角度揭示了纳粹迫害受害者的另一种方式——精神手段，也说明了人类不仅仅是需要物质就行的，这一点与《太空旅客》和《鲁滨逊漂流记》异曲同工。想追求主演颜值的观众可能会失望，但男主的演技真心不错。
最后一幕泪崩！当你专注地看着你热爱的方向，就会看到神的身影，招手让你远离悬崖。
在生前完成自传《昨日的世界》后不久，1942年2月22日，他与妻子一起，在里约热内卢以拥有尊严的方式结束了生命。唯精神坚不可摧的知识分子，就这样突然放弃了信仰，令人唏嘘，
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