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".
意外的好，但也没有那么好。主要是故事不突兀情绪铺陈到位的故事现在感觉好像好少见，土气却又令人怀念，就连那几幕明显就是要闹一闹逼你哭的scene也不那么讨厌了起来。而“余命十年”的最后一年设置在2019，也算是能被强行解读的别有深意，因为关于过去那十几年，或许每个人都有太多话要说，确实回头看到路上一瞬即过的美景，就会在其中暼见平行世界里幸福的自己。但也只能学会继续生活。整4星吧。
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😂
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有两处快要落泪的地方，一是小火车里孩子努力的站起来，爸爸妈妈说我们就在你身后；二是最后一个片段，菜市场里的孩子们在各种条件下努力学习。
是只看见片名就了解剧情发展的电影，算是日系纯爱类型片里经（十）久（分）不（老）息（套）的一脉，我苍老的灵魂已经无法再被这种片子触动到了。但是是坂口小天使和NANA主演诶，这就是我看的理由。
本片可以算是电影界的一股清流了，没有大场面大制作，也没有豪华阵容出演，因为这是一部绘本画风格的动画电影。整片分为七个短篇，七位导演的七个故事，很有趣也很新颖，都充满了爱与温情，看过之后，让人倍感温暖，虽然该片比较小众，但老少咸宜，不论年龄都能有所触动，十分值得一看！
日本、韩国都太会拍这种催泪故事，最后发现原作者真的因为这种病走了，真实得有点唏嘘。
这种绝症爱情片要能看得下去，还是得女主角看得顺眼，情节啥的基本不大会有新意了。
他的生活有了方向，她的生命有了宽度
感谢大陆的绘本作者，动画电影人，监制等辛勤的付出，中国的原创动画还是会有美好的愿景。
手持DV什么牌子啊质量真好用了这么多年。
明明可以一起渡过最后一段时间
小松和坂口真的太配了 什么都不做光是同框画面就很赏心悦目 坂口感觉还是老样子 小松演技倒是进步不少 片子虽然是意料之中的老套剧情但是小松一哭我也会想哭555
适合姨妈期的时候看，大哭一场之后很舒服。经常会忘记只是活着就已经很幸福这件事情，更何况是健康的没有病痛和倒计时的活着。都是喜欢的演员，剧情很无聊，跨越一个月终于看完。
想起我那位同样因为肺动脉高压去世的同学，她甚至没有活到大学毕业。在一些人生的重要时刻，总会替她惋惜，类似一种“如果你在就好了”的心情。不知她过的怎么样，在天堂有没有继续保持豪爽的个性。我不敢再讲想死这种话啦，想用力活着，活到很久很久以后。
北京电影节带孩子看完的。如果公映，都值得去看看。是七个小绘本故事组成的。
一眼看得到头的故事，反而处处都很容易代入茉莉的心情，个人最大的哭点是「お願い。わかったって言って」这句。
影像质量没得说 催泪效果非常有诚意
在死人纯爱里也算是拍得无趣的，剧情和表演都毫无波澜，我看得也毫无波澜……唯一可取的是雪地里的两位主演是真的蛮养眼的，不过和共演们的演技一对比起来真的有点割裂……
剧情大概都猜的出来，但是配乐一出来加上画面还是很好哭
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