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".
奈绪给人眼前一亮的感觉，益生菌逐渐姨化的面向略让人出戏 -- 说不上来的一种现代气息，和被雪封印的村落有一种格格不入。
没看过原著。不过挺喜欢电影里的意境和念白式的推进。徒劳，無駄，一个是岛村先生的用词，一个是驹子的用词，一个用局外人的眼光看，一个从局中人的角度看，但意思都一样。我很爱你，我为你做了那么多，可是有什么用，有人依然会死，有人如期离去，独剩那个依然有所期盼的女子，在雪中等待。
当我纠结看不看的时候我就知道有很大可能是烂片了，真的有点受不了A24这种故弄玄虚、弄点空灵音乐的所谓“恐怖片”了…不理解为什么这种片子一出来还热度这么高…
对剪的空间切割镜头不错。经典的《德州链锯杀人狂》模式的残杀片，有A24变态属性的大概就是“老害”的设定了。保守退伍房东对嬉皮性解放租客，欲求不满、年老色衰的恶妇嫉妒垂涎青春无敌的肉体，这背后反映的是现代人普遍的“年龄焦虑”（雾）。
一共700多頁的原著濃縮成兩個多小時的電影，導演把觀眾想看的都留下來了：土方近藤總司三人的牽絆、土方和お雪的牽絆、松平容保的無可奈何和幕末的動盪刻。但對於歷史愛好者而言可能還是不夠深刻，受限於時長的關係，有點流水帳了。值得一提的是電影開頭的石板路是有意義的，要看到最後才知道。五星給三人組、松平容保和山崎烝。
桥老则老矣，演这种有钱又有点丧的文青还是手到擒来啊。即别人的故事是别人的故事我只是个开麦拉（。还真是。驹子日记那段跟看电影似的，但就算打破第四面墙火场里她还是朝叶子的方向跑过去，最近的距离是擦过肩膀。ps奈绪真是楚楚动人啊，眼睛总是湿漉漉的。
奈绪很好。高桥冷漠得太平面化了，岛村应该看上去是个外热内冷的人。一个“我其实也不想救风尘”的故事，这样的岛村根本无法让驹子有什么期待啊。景色很美，不知道为什么让森山演叶子，声音没有任何记忆点。摄影很美，确实是徒劳。
估计会让很多人生理不适，但我觉得这是1970年代SnuffFilm的回魂之作，短小精悍、简单粗暴，是继《爱之女巫》之后，做的最好的一部复古亚类型。反派老夫妻几乎是格兰特·伍德那幅经典画作《美国哥特式》的挪用（尤其老太太抡起叉子），电影主要用《德州电锯杀人狂》搭骨架，同时代几部经典片元素去添皮肉：《人食人实录》（摄制组拍片）+《唾弃我的坟墓》（裸泳）+《活死人黎明》（电视媒介）+《深喉》（色情片）为辅，多种元素融成一套自己的东西，匹配剪辑/分屏玩得有巧劲儿，却不卖弄，最后还能对反派角色报以一定的同情，在老年人对青春肉体的渴望上又与《万能钥匙》不谋而合。
终于看了电影的#《雪国》#，凉丝丝的物哀与幽玄是有的，若论无边无涯的徒劳与虚无，感觉完全不及川端康成以及汉字川端文学之父叶渭渠的文字。刚搜了下，网上包括知乎、起点，全是付费阅读。被人买断，我也早已不属于我。拿自己做的终极版这样截图，应该可以的吧。
3星给男女主1星给景1电影接近结尾终于明白为什么男女主似有隔阂又联系在一起：岛村最强工具人实锤！ 2高桥和奈绪泡温泉画面让我不知道想抱走高桥还是抱走奈绪！3高桥一生饰演的岛村是真正的绿叶，扮演观测女主几年变化的旁观者 。4镜头语言:导演刻意减少男女主近景表达情绪的镜头，可以增多了第三方窥探视角，以此来增加一切均“徒劳”的宿命感。【各种乱序剪辑最后再来个真相实在无语】4剧本太过小心翼翼，导演和编剧无法用镜头语言表达清楚的事情均用高桥的独白来完成——》综上就不要吐槽演员没演好这码事，这些都是导演和编剧对原著的解读而已。
“我只要我应得的人生”，但是这种人基本都死光了
益生菌和奈绪都是好演员，可不晓得为什么，在这样的故事里完全撑不住；尤其奈绪，跟和服姿天生八字不合。尽管这是个严格依照小说顺序做的剧本，却反而看得人愈发吃力，还不如做得跟肥皂剧一样，说不定更好看呢。
书很多年前看的，剧情太散了，导致一直回忆不起来发生了什么，电影剧情更易懂，终于全回忆起来了。
没有反转没有新概念没有神神叨叨，但就像主角说的，我们更高级。女主角的远峰蓝眼影也太时髦了不去走秀versace上杂志封面我不同意！
驹子——小驹——小松。驹子无法为自己很活，在漫天大雪里等待别人的来到和离去，没有办法挽留。
难得看到90分钟的日影~ 川端康成的故事原来这么哀伤 如果不是高桥一生和奈绪的话应该不会看这样的电影~ 高桥一生的角色是一个线索人物 着重讲述的其实是奈绪扮演的艺伎的故事 贫苦人家的女儿经历了卖身赎身 又尝尽了初恋的坎坷和背叛 实在是悲哀得很~ 不得不说奈绪的气质非常契合角色 含泪的眼睛给全片注入了灵魂 高桥一生外冷内热的特质也将角色诠释得很好~ 可惜影片不是自己喜欢的风格哈~
既然如此，那就为着自己心中的念想放手一搏吧。这大概是存在于世最后的意义。
中途驹子的对白都把我看蒙了，要不断的跟上她的情绪真的好累。
在初中时懵懂地读了川端康成的《雪国》，十几年间又断断续续读了很多遍，虽说每次都觉得没有完全读懂，但每次又都感慨这真的是伟大的作品。这部电影对岛村、驹子、行男的选角很符合我的想象，叶子则稍微差点意思。电影似乎尽量想要还原原著，但显然力度不够，难以呈现那种徒劳、纯净又悲哀的感觉。特别是最后二十分钟驹子日记的独白，显得有点赘余。最后还是想感叹：高桥一生的演技很厉害！
雪国，一个“山沟沟”的地方，“我”在此邂逅了一段“徒劳”的爱情，也被套娃式地卷入了她的那段难以启齿的爱情中。可是，雪终将消融——世间好物不坚牢，彩云易散琉璃脆——正如这段萍水相逢的露水.夫.妻.式的恋情。
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