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".
漫画原文主体是对战闯关，和《幽游白书》的模式没什么不同。区别在于历史架空的大背景，末代剑客的人生转轨，由杀人剑去到活人剑。追忆篇正是整个系列最集中体现历史压力的。表面上写男人和女人的关系，绯村后来是以妻子称呼巴。因为体会了普通人的生活，体会了失去宝贵之物的痛苦，拔刀斋对于“新时代”的追求更加丰盈自觉，而不是概念化、机械化，是“真志士”而非“杀人机器”。苦恋之下处理的是男人和男人的关系，尊王也罢攘夷也罢，京都江户长洲会津萨摩新选组总都是为了时代的方向。个人成败不是不带来痛苦，但“忧国”终于是最强音。隔壁妹子在感情戏段落哭得撕心，倒像帮我抒发掉了。草庐之火是化炼狂焰，把绯村和雪代这两个俊逸的名字纠缠在一起。忘记了，明治前十年里剑心在做什么。打逆刃刀，或者在国土各地旅行。弃剑归去，漂亮得不行。
有些邂逅，虽然短暂如朝露浮萍，也已经成为一生一世的绝响。
终于可以放心死了 以及二人对手戏居然真的有姐弟感 令人感动
一个为了新时代的男人，如何在杀了那么多人后还能保持人性、不忘初心的故事。
有个高中同学很迷港漫（如今港漫已死）。有个则很迷日漫，《浪客剑心》就是他的藏书之一，而我也曾经追过北条司、安达充，就是借他的，但当时对武侠已经不感兴趣，特别对日本古代没兴趣，所以没看过这个。书名却是早就熟悉的。
（一声“对不起，我的夫君”，一语双关。）
以始作终，打斗画面犀利、不含糊，尤其开头屋内那段刺杀更是远超前面几作。画面精美，和雪代巴的感情更是描绘得细腻到位，也为后面拔刀斋的经历铺垫了情感基础。可谓是最优秀的前传，或是终传 @Netflix
对还原度的追求近乎变态，无奈雪代巴的选角毁了一切
又想起来看漫画时候的感觉了。砂糖的剑心很厉害哦。
新选组这装束看着跟全真派道士似的（。
哎，这部讲的就是绯村的心啊，这才是《浪客剑心》该有的样子！这片子做的甚至让我相信它是原创的，不是漫改的。因为太精致了。这追忆篇的故事是极好的，就是打斗太少了。当然此片也不需要，因为之前的三部已足够过瘾。这最后两部，只要完整就好了！
平庸至极
今年看过最唯美的爱情片，画面绝美，张弛有度的节奏把握得很好，打斗部分利落畅快，缓慢抒情的部分也一点不觉得拖沓，情感层层递进水到渠成在无声中一起努力守护乱世中平淡而脆弱的幸福。终于看到一个主动去爱人的剑心，看到了剑心的温柔。最后巴在剑心脸上刻下刀痕的一幕感人至深，“就算你手中有刀，我也不会伤害你，我唯一不会伤害的人就是你”
其實最後看這一部是對的 一切都回到最初 哎 看一次傷心一次 從小就堅信Kenshin唯一愛過的只有Tomoe 漫改當中 這一部的選角接近完美了 有村完全符合童年看動漫的Tomoe形象啊 佐藤健也是唯一的kenshin 拔刀齋
除了8女士最后有一点反转，剧情真的没新意，异常拖沓，画面倒是拍的很美。也没规定说电影非得把剧情拍的很好，把画面拍的美也是电影。幸好有进度条，观众的剪辑器。
很讨厌其他几部浓浓的cos感，属于是美术摆烂的行为
新撰组剑术考究的还原和杀人剑更凌厉的动作设计，这血量才有剑戟片的样子嘛！桂和高杉晋作惊喜现身，附赠和总司的一战不能再心满意足，部分原作突兀的台词和桥段做的修改好评，结尾扣分但诚意收到了。
巴给剑心刻的第二刀痕迹怎么跟剑心脸上的对不上
总的来说,当作一部独立的作品是优秀的,作为真人版勉强合格.
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