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".
这片子一定不止6.2分，拍的真好。生离和死别，为什么总是能安慰自己接受前者。
3.5
題材和卡司都很好，開頭也不錯，但後面有點無聊了。劇情平鋪直述步調慢，沒什麼吸引點。最大亮點是清原果耶
“这当然是你的幻境，但它也是真实”幻境亦作为突触的暂时连接和神经细胞间的电活动而物理性地存在，只是它转瞬即逝，我们的眼睛无法看清
異様な事件の裏に隠された、切なすぎる真実とは―
6.2分低估了，我愿意给五星拉高这个评分。电影剧情表现的主题宏大却又很简单，人总会老去，死亡，是每个人都要经历的事情，谁都躲不过这个坎，这是一个永恒的话题。人生中会经历很多东西，生命的意义在于传承吗，好像是也不是，传承的记忆，知识，在几代人后终究还是会被遗忘，消失在宇宙中，比一粒沙还渺小，发不出一丁点儿声音，打不出一丁儿点浪花，但是每个人活着的当下，活着的刹那却又是那么清晰，那么美好。电影演员演技在线，音乐和画面转场和布置都很棒，故事完整而又有岁月感，看完让人感觉像过完了一生，就如同薄荷糖般，那么的美好，那么的纯洁。第二天买的高粱饴，味道还不错。
佐藤健的演技真的是再登新阶了，一个角色的三个阶段，即便没有特别大的时间跨度和外貌变化，仅通过眼神，体态，演出了极端可信真实的人物立体度。就是不用任何背景介绍，你只要看到他的第一眼，就能感到心疼的那种。就是可惜，虽然表演非常棒，诸多配角也都惊鸿一瞥十足抓人，故事本身立意也很棒，但导演能力实在是太平庸了点…………节奏平，剪辑平且不自然，悬念约等于没有，情节上感觉什么都想带一笔结果什么都没说细。阿部宽明明可以有戏却沦为工具人，林遣都甚至连工具人都不配，可以直接删除的那种。不过吧，总的来说还是可以看的，没有太大的问题，就是比较平庸。故事是个好故事，佐藤健的表演真的值得拿一个奖
6.9 程序上没错，但为什么有人饿死？之前看《王冠》伦敦雾霾，这次看日本311加社会福利问题组合拳，总是恍惚如当下。狗头社会派，美剧手法，无限闪回，时间线乱跳，感情尴尬，如坐针毡。
阿甘也是打乒乓球获得了人生机会，珍妮也是风风火火一生最后给男主留了个孩子。这电影用奇幻元素来探讨人生意义，比起《大鱼》和《本杰明巴顿奇事》差了一个档次，王朔这一波乱炖真够乱的。
很遗憾，白瞎了这么好的演员阵容。全片的人物形象并没有得到应有的刻画，无法撑起电影的核心主题，比如惠姨的描写就特别少，这可是杀人事件的导火线。但是，全片的无力和无奈带来的惆怅，久久不能挥去。
雖然劇情很扯，但是都說了是“奇事”，我就當他合理吧。整個電影美術也好服化道也好，都是那個高度統一的風格，我不確定這是不是某種個人化的風格，反正很喜歡。故事傳遞的感情和態度我都接收到了，且被感動到哭泣，有一種時光回溯的感覺。
剧情代入感极强
311伤痛文学 可你们有些问题就算没地震也会存在不是么
果然王传君还是很会挑剧本的。鲁这个角色也是非常之不好发挥，演成这样已经很不错了。芳的角色就很适合王珞丹，拿捏的不费吹灰之力。而萌萌的角色，也从一开始的有点招人厌到最后击中人心。
日本片子总体节奏就是太磨叽，当然，你也可以说是为了细腻刻画，呵呵
我总觉着，人的生命还很漫长
3.5星。那些得不到保护的人，要发出自己的声音，要发出比那些卑劣者更坚定更理直气壮的声音。
估计简单，深刻，本来以为是偏探案题材，不过最后还说落在人情上，也算呼应了。突然发现日本老奶奶都非常和蔼。
是很一般，但比预期好。即使主题表达的并不好，但至少有。王传君演的角色怕是摩羯座了……
干细胞研究能治愈植物人，还能让人永葆青春，长生不老……最后还隐秘恶臭地玩了把代孕
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