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".
3/5 十分普通的绝症片，与同期的桜のような僕の恋人其实区别不大，只是这部的表达更内敛，演员更能把观众带入而已。ps.我似乎能get到坂口了。
“为什么偏偏是我呢”/如果生命只有十年 你想做什么/喜欢小松菜奈的调调 还是哭了一鼻子的。
有点感人的爱情电影。
映画はただ、理想主義的な妄想曲。これは共感できることではないし、家族もできない。これは一人で戦う旅行で、お互いに救い合う人は現れないだろう。十年は速く,十五年も。現実には奇跡がなく、ただ一人だけが静かに消えてしまう。
——梅子涵
情绪的转折其实也是情节的转折，几次转折都有点奇怪，感觉莫名其妙，但是前段有一段相机记录里的蒙太奇镜头穿插着茉莉分药的镜头我觉得蛮妙的。整体就是中规中矩好哭的日本煽情爱情生活片，卡司阵容真的强。
好像看了两个小时的mv，全靠nana的颜在撑……“只要有你在身边，我感觉自己无所不能。”
以及 坂口和小松的CP感在照片里很足 可是到电影里就神奇的消失了
能够出现这样的绘本动画电影，我觉得也是电影艺术的一种进步。
也不能说好看，或者说是一部好电影。但就是，一直哭，哭到眉骨疼、后脑勺疼。也就是说，这绝对是一部好哭感人的电影。哭一哭有益身心健康，深刻感受到要抓紧时间谈恋爱，不要白白浪费时间！
原创绘本改编的7个故事短片集，每一章的手绘画风各有特色，情感基调温暖而治愈，章节之间的童谣颇为可爱，看着它仿佛回到了无忧无虑的童年，适合家长带着小朋友一起观看。
一直觉得藤井道人很有才华 画面唯美 音乐动人 情感细腻不刻意煽情 但也太好哭了吧 不要再多浪费一天的时间
做动画的人都是在“用生命换时长”。有的人三十多岁放弃博士学位从零开始学动画，有的人收集了一屋子的杂物来汲取灵感，有的人纯手绘一个几秒的镜头就要画两百多幅，有的做耗时耗力的纸定格，有的人一天能吃掉几包白兔奶糖，有的人为了一杯糖水去沿街寻觅......他们都是成年人，却是内心住着童话
坂口需要什么演技？他就乖乖地站在那里不说话，感觉都像谈了一场甜甜的恋爱…谁能忍住不和坂口谈恋爱？女主😂
虽然大家都在哭，但是剧情也就是标准的绝症系剧情，画面很美，演员都很好，radwimps配乐也不错
第一次看绘本电影，因为自己本身也是一名业余插画师，最近也刚刚完成自己人生中第一本绘本，所以感触还是蛮大的。我特别喜欢哼哈二将和糖水铺这两个短片，两部都是讲述的我们普通人普普通通的生活，普普通通的故事，但是正是因为它普通反而显得格外温情，哼哈二将的反转是我着实没想到的，一开始只以为是类似国潮风格的一部短片，不得不说结尾部分升华也提点了整个片子的高度，很喜欢！！糖水铺的老爷爷好喜欢啊，就像是我们隔壁的老爷爷普通的一天，与邻居与清洁大叔与放学归来的小朋友与星光赶路的路人与形形色色的人的生活片段，很温情很美好，看完这个无敌想吃糖水了hhhhhhh～～
一般苦情戏男女主的羁绊感都超强，但是这部因为男主的普通显得两个人真的毫无羁绊感，给人的感觉就是男主完全可以被另一个出现在女主世界里的男生替代😂
本来这电影也是奔着两位主角去的，真的太无聊倍速看完的，如果换作是高中的我或许还能接受，就像坂口的那部与君相恋100次也差不多这个套路，但当时我还能哭出来，现在看到这些煽情已经无感了…
看了大概40分钟吧。有什么意义呢所以。给黑木华找个老公麻烦也找个好看点的，没钱也不至于这么理直气壮。
这不就是《我和我的祖国》系列之《我和我的童年》吗？看完不禁忆起我最真挚、最快乐的童年。影片没有花里胡哨的东西，满满的感动，用最朴实的画风来讲最平凡的故事，每个故事都是那么的温暖有爱。当童年的魔力盒再次打开，梦想一次又一次被唤醒，让记忆在梦想中开花，我站在又一个春天遥望。为7位导演打call！！
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