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".
浪客剑心这个系列电影，真的给了我很大的震撼。看完这一部后，心里竟然久久不能平静。我想以后有时间，我想重新把这个系列再从头看一遍。这样子的话，我或许就能更加理解这个故事了吧。
20年前看的漫画，10年前开始电影系列第一部，到今天为止终于完结，大友不仅奉献了我心目中最好的漫改电影系列，也让佐藤健在个人影史上塑造了一个经典的人物，到这部结束，在我心里剑心就是佐藤健，佐藤健已经就是剑心了
2021.6.4丸の内ピカデリー舞台挨拶付きイベント。有幸参加了主创的活动，见到佐藤健真人真的太帅了。说电影，因为之前已经看过OVA了，所以一直在暗暗和OVA的情节进行对比。无论是剧情还是台词，比起OVA改动还蛮大，有些我期望可以在电影里面拍出来OVA的点并没有呈现出来（白梅香、剑心的陀螺和巴的小刀等等）。剧情节奏比较平缓，没有看过原作可能会觉得拖沓。人物塑造方面，我印象中的巴可是敢爱敢恨的御姐，电影的巴有点平面化了。但是剑心！比起OVA对巴更加主动了一点，个人还是觉得比较惊喜的！最后结尾和第一部无缝衔接，完美首尾呼应。总之，无论作为真人化电影还是作为浪客剑心的一部，主创的诚意有很好得被感受到，私心还是给个五星吧。
有漫改和前传两大雷区，也亏得原作底子好，还有前作动作设计的成功经验，能有现在这部作品完美收官，真是双手鼓掌。这里的剑心和《皇家赌场》里的邦德真是同一个人，但还有（整个系列）历史和现代性的碰撞。所以，这其实个左翼青年逐渐转右的变形记。
和同类的古装历史武打片比，演技和主题深度都不算最佳，日影演员的漫画式演技风格结合本片的漫改类型属性还有些尬，但放在日漫改编真人电影里就是天花板了。一些剧情细节的改编也微妙改变了角色的行为性格，结合演员既有的外形气质也不是不能接受。不知道会不会有星霜篇。多年以后再看除了唏嘘这片真是好典型的东方古典剧情梗之外就是种田治百病：多种点萝卜，身怀绝技的中二杀手都能矫成安贫乐道的良民。
武井妹子也没出现（现实原因？不过在角色加成下，村花本作气场已经强势碾压了。故去的前任是永无法超越的存在。。（虽然面瘫和不动声色演技也就是看客的一体两面，砂糖同。。
安藤政信是不是史上最好看高杉！你们讲！#虽然是酱油中的酱油……
了解了剑心的形成，才会被他后来的改变所感动。
两天看完了五部系列电影。佐藤健幸运，绯村剑心也是幸运，遇上彼此和比较靠谱的团队。这部，我喜欢，充满血腥又纠缠不休的狠与爱。但是，巴的脸过分了，太大了，比剑心大很多哎。高马尾冷酷杀手少年，为了新时代甘愿当刽子手潜伏黑暗里，与血腥为伴，靠近了他爱上他是必然，剑心爱上巴也是必然，故事最后也必然是个悲剧。新时代来临，我不会再杀人，只有剑留在了战场上，再无刽子手只有浪客剑心。ＯＫ。完美衔接第一部。
本来以为会滑坡，毕竟ova追忆篇一贯被称作神作，但是电影版竟然不落下风。然后终于看到天诛人斩时，剑心有多凶狠凌厉了，相比之下，维新以后战斗力下降的厉害。好看，这系列彻底结束了吧？期待国内能引进，想去电影院看，然后特别可惜电影版没了动画版里，维新大业成功前夕，高杉晋作吐血而亡的悲壮，但是见到了，剑心与冲田总司两个绝顶高手之间的对决，好看
日本漫改的标杆。武打依旧好看。巴也是神还原。当然和动画版无法比，那是神作。
系列最好的一部，深沉、痛苦，超越了原作正片那种幼稚中二的层次，有点儿意思
有村架纯少了些凄冷清雅，有些地方看得有点尬，但最重要的那场挡刀戏份完成得很好，但我的惊艳情怀全给《人诛篇》了，应该先拍追忆再拍人诛。。。。
爱情片而非动作片。
狗血虐恋，节奏慢到抠脚，总司丑得令人发指，长这样就别玩病弱吐血美少年那套了吧真·辣眼睛
真是让人难以置信
哇，剧场版电影有在越来越接轨电影，去剧场版化。
终于，历经九年，大友启史与佐藤健，用这部追忆篇给剑心系列画上了一个颇为圆满的句号。靠削弱所有其他人物，剧情，乃至动作元素，为剑心与巴这段凄美的爱情让路，从最终效果上来说，是值得的。这样一个女人如何在复仇的过程中爱上仇人的故事，本片描述的足够令人信服，起承转合都非常到位，也让观众清晰了他之后不杀生，守护人民的信念是从何而来。本部不仅是画面格外优美，有相当多构图和镜头语言，是去为人物心境和情绪氛围，提供额外的表达与烘托。有村架纯演绎的巴也确确实实能让原作党满意，除了最后的那种矛盾感还差点意思。但打戏还是要吐槽，佐藤健绝对迅猛凌厉的身手是让打戏平均水准相比上部有所提升。但除他以外一个能打的都没有，又让全片看起来连一场足够惊叹的打戏都没有……不过还是希望后面星霜篇就别拍了……给剑心一个好结局吧😭
追忆篇是一切的起点 故事相对独立 就算抛开漫改背景 这也是一部精彩的幕末武士片 本片的故事非常悲凉凄美 讲述了一位维新志士 革命先辈的挣扎 相比于浪客剑心的正篇故事 追忆篇通过剑心和巴两人的遭遇 更能体现时代大背景对个人命运的扭曲 这个故事在反思为了所谓伟大目的的杀戮的正当性 因此这部电影的动作戏也相比前四部更加血腥残暴 这一部已经完全看不到漫画式或者切磋过招式的打斗 干脆凌厉刀刀见血 由此也能看出剑心斩人鬼时期是多么恐怖扭曲毫无人性 这也就让与巴相爱后剑心人性苏醒 这种角色转变显得很有说服力 这个故事的角色弧非常完整 比正篇的角色刻画更好
浪客剑心这个系列电影，真的给了我很大的震撼。看完这一部后，心里竟然久久不能平静。我想以后有时间，我想重新把这个系列再从头看一遍。这样子的话，我或许就能更加理解这个故事了吧。
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