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".
师傅太好了，思恋和孺慕之情快溢出屏幕了……
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。
唯一槽点：北野武年轻时候没有面瘫啊！这个不用刻意模仿啊！最后的老年北野武真的是惊了，居然不是本尊，依然是柳乐优弥的化妆，完全看不出来！是枝裕和到真是挖出了一个超棒的影帝啊。B站有这电影的混剪，比电影更好哭→【【北野武|浅草小子】“我的人生才刚刚开始!”-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/39hR8uU
看哭了 这个师父太暖了！北野武波澜壮阔的前半生。也反映了日本的时代背景，电视冲击了舞台剧。最后那个call back真的泪崩。一直在搞笑、有很多包袱
虽然看哭。但预期太高。还是过于平常。但看完后喜的是片名，浅草小子，嘿嘿，也就是和 菊次郎的夏天，异曲同工啊。
4.5/5 顺序、插叙、倒叙并行的叙事结构使得剧情丰满有趣。最后北野武本人走回浅草法兰西座的长镜头堪称本片高光，物是人非，有种夜深忽梦少年事之感。前期铺垫过久扣0.5星。
结尾一镜到底+踢踏舞赛高！一日为师，终身为父。葬礼时同僚讲出来师匠不愿意关馆的原因时，瞬间泪奔。菊次郎里的踢踏舞也是像师匠致敬！唯一的遗憾就是要是北野武本人出境就好了。
「不要讨好观众，要由你告诉观众什么是有趣的」「不要让观众笑你，你要逗观众笑」师傅是很有智慧的人啊
又是一部网飞，今年的年度十佳几乎被网飞垄断，讲的是北野武青年在浅草做学徒时期的故事，最后一段长镜头朝花夕拾，透过影像青年老年北野武互相张望，很是感动。推荐大家看一部同样题材的日剧《火花》。
电视冲击下，喜剧人的奋进和辛酸。逗笑的段子里满是眼泪，师徒情青春恋也都是传统的。艺术手法很合我的口味，所以给了五星。推荐一下。
在被蚊子骚扰一晚上心浮气躁想揍人的时候看完了这部片子，笑着笑着就哭了，很煽但是很受用，平静下来了呢。（ps：影帝演得挺好的，虽然北野武的面瘫是后来车祸留下，但这样处理确实更有记忆点也更符合“北野武形象”呢）真想知道老头自己看这部片子的时候是什么表情，是不是也八嘎牙路个不断😚
天呐！年度最佳预定！导演太厉害了！演员演的也都非常好！在时代的推动下 师徒之间的感情也在流动的变化着. 师父就是在时代变迁下依然遵循着旧传统的老艺人 有气节 不跪舔观众.有这样的师父是何其幸福啊！师傅和师娘 男主和女主之间的感情也让人唏嘘.最后北野武回法兰西座的时候就好像漫步人生路一样 回溯往日最美好的时光 但却无法再重来.最喜欢辞职的那场戏 张力太足了！从这场戏往后就一直紧紧的被抓住。太棒了！ “1不要被人笑 要逗人笑。2不要讨好观众 要告诉他们什么是好的。3大家都是这样怀着梦想饿死的-那我一定要死的有趣 到时候让你大笑。4不管在舞台上怎么装疯卖傻 下了台就要让人觉得帅”
完全是笨拙模仿，没有得到一点北野武的神韵。
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
关于电影本身没什么太多想法，毕竟早已通过自传采访电影等各种方式勾勒出这位传奇的轮廓，只能说对于那段经历可能还原的不错，但用这种特别常规的表现形式来说北野武就真的一点都不酷，最打动人的就是由本人演唱的《浅草キッド》和师徒二人真挚的情感传递。
门胁麦好抓眼！本以为是老头子致敬老师的作品，抬头一瞅，竟然是剧团一人😂 在遗照前像扯段子一样说已经烧了一半了火葬场说少收点钱的时候太让人难过了……这才刚刚开始报恩……
好莱坞味道过于浓重了 这么讲一个日本传记片 我不是很能接受 难道北野武可以？！我不相信….
大师的话说的很对啊，不要扮丑被人笑，要靠技艺逗人笑。
除开对于日本某些文化的不理解之外，电影讲的是传承与革新，个人觉得麻麻地
一起跳踢踏舞吧。确实红鳉鱼。xixio. 影帝get到了。
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