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".
对师徒故事毫无抵抗力。要说遗憾，大泉洋演的师父经过了徒弟双眼的滤镜，几乎没什么缺点。
在寫師徒就看到師徒真是緣分。每次踢踏舞部分的剪輯節奏真棒，但劇情到了最後有種害怕情緒不夠拼命堆積的露怯。不少細節相當到位，都在師徒間的對話和行為裡流出，值得再看看對白，很棒的商業片。但男主拼命模仿型態的笨拙，讓我出戲地想起《梅艷芳》裡女主努力噘起的嘴。還要誇兩位女性角色，真有魅力
能对如此天才有启发的老师 居然穷困潦倒至此 不免觉得人生充满不公平
师徒重聚那段很棒，最后的长镜头很棒
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
这一段师徒情，如同父子情，情真意切。不要去讨好观众，不要扮丑，要有真功夫。
身处现今这“高冷”而仓惶的年代场景中，在这习惯了隔离疏离的时空里，如期看到这样一部在摩肩接踵的戏馆酒肆市井里散发着温暖的正常人间烟火味的片子，尤其让人感动莫名。 我想这就是它的豆瓣评分远高于IMDB的原因吧。 当然，这是北野武和深见千三郎的故事，当然也是渥美清与山田洋次们的故事。北野武的演艺生涯，也像寅次郎的游历人生。片中着意提到了渥美清，是一代巨星彼此间的惺惺相惜，是一个族群个体之间的情意，也是他们对往昔时光的敬意。 电视和漫才或许能取代剧院与谐剧，大火与地震或许能烧毁浅草，但江户风情依然。或历困顿，仍然幸运。 对一片土地来说，真正的不幸是文化的断裂与人群的疏离。
莫名的情绪感染，浅草那首歌只要一出现就想哭…哈哈。柳乐优弥依然不错，北野武老年仿妆很努力了但太出戏了，真希望做两分钟脸盲。
段子都挺有拍子武风格的，断手指后游不了直线在《大佬》里也用过，不知道是不是直接从自传里搬过来的。故事写得一团糟，第一幕里做了对新旧观念冲突下的凄凉感慨，后边一直原地打转，接点儿真实事件里搬来的煽情片段就把关键的人物关系转变搪过去了，主题也煽没了，看不到创作者对坚守旧时代的手艺人的态度如何。当然网飞作为资方，无论怎么讲不合适，虽无自讽的勇气，但还算有点自知之明，所以干脆一煽情大家哭一哭算了。北野武的仿妆堪称年度十大惊悚。
虽然get不到漫才的笑点，但是能get这群家伙的真。双面北野武，铁汉柔情典范，影帝歪嘴那一下还是很有神韵的。配乐好听。
要是法兰西座关了，阿武怎么办啊。直接泪崩了。而且都是伏笔啊。
3.几次巧妙的光影转场有种漫画的味道，比较亮眼
借北野武成名前浅草生涯，描摹民间艺人的坚持与困境。悲剧是喜剧之源，师父深见是此片之魂。
表演不错，故事一般，师徒暗线还行，冲大泉洋来的。
3.5；每个喜剧背后都有一个悲剧的核。不要讨好观众，要告诉观众什么才是好笑的。煽情的部分稍微少一点就更好了。
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….
哪儿是北野武和阿清，这组合分明是山田孝之和刁亦男；想学踢踏舞
浅草老油条北野武。
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。
北野武成长故事，师傅背着他到处拜托别人是泪点，但....
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