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".
最后“老年北野武”漫步浅草剧场内的片段真是泪目了，回首过往，所有的聒噪都有无限回音，穿越时空，拨人心弦。
大家可能都以为外表凶悍残暴的北野武的故事可能会是一个二五仔的成长故事，可看过他自传的就会知道他的经历真的就是一个很鸡汤式的小伙奋斗史。影片中主角演员刻意表现的面部抽搐总让我觉得不爽，毕竟北野武是后来车祸才出现的面部神经损坏造成的，这样的表演稍显刻意，可都不妨碍这是一部搞笑下充满泪点的师徒情义的温情故事
看了好多年日本综艺节目，听过无数艺人一半自嘲一半搞笑讲述未成名时辛酸故事，但北野武浅草小子歌词描述的意境，始终难以被超越。笑中带泪的好电影，有瑕疵，但极其合我胃口。
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。
極富人情味的敘事，在懷古的鏡頭光線中主要映照的是愛徒與敬師，是表演家庭中的飄搖和扶持
大家可能都以为外表凶悍残暴的北野武的故事可能会是一个二五仔的成长故事，可看过他自传的就会知道他的经历真的就是一个很鸡汤式的小伙奋斗史。影片中主角演员刻意表现的面部抽搐总让我觉得不爽，毕竟北野武是后来车祸才出现的面部神经损坏造成的，这样的表演稍显刻意，可都不妨碍这是一部搞笑下充满泪点的师徒情义的温情故事
专心致志讲师徒，几乎是切断北野武身上其余一切身份，断绝更深挖掘角度的可能。但即使是如此朴素地叙述，还是处理得绘声绘色，完全没有预想中传记片古板老旧的匠气。
“听好了，不要去讨好观众，由你来告诉观众，什么才是有趣的。”
对师生情没有什么太大的感觉，但是每一段踢他都给的太好了。and，，幽默是智识满溢。
踢踏舞，高跟鞋的梗，“如果打车钱还有剩的话，记得拿来还给我”，永远的师徒，永远的浅草法兰西座。
结尾实在拉胯，本来这部电影的优点就是没有把叙述重点只放在北野武身上，而是讲了师徒的感情、喜剧剧场的衰落以及一条动人的爱情线，但是结尾完全落在了北野武个人对于曾经的感怀上，整个电影都显得老气横秋了；另外这部电影的声音还挺不错的，声音带动剪辑给电影增添了很强的韵律感；btw，柳乐弥优好帅啊，越看越喜欢
表演不错，故事一般，师徒暗线还行，冲大泉洋来的。
虽然觉得影帝比北野武颜值高了太多，但我还是喜欢影帝w
本是抱着多了解北野武成名史而来，结果硬是被这师傅给整泪目了。片子flag立的太多，中岛步一如既往的帅，柳乐优弥老年北野武扮相绝了。
1.服、化、道尤其是几十年前的那种感觉，做得细致到位
3.5/5 完全没发现老年北野武是影帝演的诶！
师徒情好感人。所以做选择要像北野武，人往高处走，从短剧到漫才到电影导演，每一次转型都步步走向人生巅峰，不要留恋现状，碍于人情，大家一起躺平摆烂，等到发展好了，再回报过去的恩人。只可惜师父和师娘没能等到这一天。
岛国传统艺人的生存状态，类似相声行业。北野武的传记。
阿武，记住，不要讨好观众，由你来告诉他们什么是有趣的。
结尾好啊，北野武回到老地方，师傅和太太 搭档大家都在 还是喊着阿武 好像什么都没有变
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