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".
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。
没有什么事情是浪费生命的，什么都不干才是浪费，阿武虽然最后也没干到千春，但顽固坚持价值观“不正确”的段子，还是成功把所有观众“干”了！
如何成为北野武？
北野武和深见千三郎的师徒情令人感动，让影帝饰演阿北，难为他了
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。
电影讲述的是北野武早年跟随师父学习短剧，以及后来通过讲漫才逐渐成名的故事。漫才这种喜剧形式，我也是通过看脱口秀大会才知道的，肉食动物嘛。
师徒情很感人 影帝声音模仿的真的不错 有老爷子的感觉 北野武真的是神人 包括他身上发生的故事
拍的一般但影帝好棒愛影帝 日本該修個新的橫店影視城了
还可，主要因为讲的是北野武，其实片子还是一般，很套路，看得出柳乐优弥演的很卖力了
两位男主将传统东亚男人间那种内敛的、情义尽在不言中的情感演绎得很好。
师徒对手戏太舒服了。影帝唯一的问题就是太帅了。
综合：8.2
饭馆和师父一起逗笑满屋食客。最后长镜头穿越当年，泪目了。台下一个观众听相声，上厕所还得停下来等他，北野武和郭德纲谁抄谁？八岁的大儿子，姜文也用过。师父说得好啊：“不要被人笑，是要逗人笑。”
日式的感动总是看起来平平淡淡，但就是很戳人，师傅的傲娇和对徒弟的期望，还有一直默默的师母，铃木保奈美还是这么好看，反而觉得北野武这个角色塑造一般，而且他那么早就脸抽了吗🤔
好厉害，柳乐优弥演得太自然了，长得一点都不像北野武却又让人心服口服。
阿武离开时计程车在前景师父深见在后景，对焦从头至尾没有变一直在师父身上，是一种最深情的告白了吧。哭泣。竟然是柳乐优弥，一点都没有比此前作为戛纳影帝的他差呢。
我心目中目前2022年最佳日影诞生了！
师徒在出租车前告别后的结尾实在工整过头 同为芸人 在导演能力上剧团一人也远不如北野武啊 而影帝的形象跟北野武实在差得太远 一度想当成火花那样的虚构人物来看 但却更加卡在抽离与不抽离之间 这个角色真的太难了 只是怎么会有那么多人信誓旦旦地觉得自己比制作方更了解北野武是什么时候开始脸部抽搐的呢…
浅草小子的前奏一响，简直是犯规。看了很多北野武写家族的故事，这一部的重点放在了师徒情，更加丰富立体，喜欢。
女主空有一把好嗓子却无用武之地，甚至不得不牺牲色相来招徕顾客。
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