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".
余命十年 不后悔与你相遇 ；余命十年 却始终没有勇气对你说一句我喜欢你；
影片的开头非常有古典的味道，简单的笔触、动人的细节，甚至出色的配音，都让人观影感好到不行。影片在七个不同的篇章中，用不同的故事（或者说片段）向我们展示了七个完全不一样的烟火世界，将观众的注意力从银幕上引导向更深层次的感动与思考。没有鸡汤味，可能是我觉得这是一部最应该推荐孩子们来看的影片的重要元素之一。
我不想对主角说坚持，我想对我自己说坚持，坚持看完，然而看完依旧对日式绝症煽情无感。其实我期待这部电影是因为奈绪和山田裕贵，能想到他们戏份少，没想到少成这样，连几分钟完整的故事线都没有，直接几个镜头带过。
剧本改得真的平。男女主超过预期的搭，我果然还是吃盐男颜，小松可能不属于仙女哭那类，但笨拙真挚的哭红鼻子一样动人。
只要你能看到，也希望你们能看到。
帅哥美女可不可以二搭谈场甜甜的恋爱🥺坂口能不能不要再驼背了。全程都太慢太平了，看完整部电影我真的都没找到该哭的地方。当然最后女主的书独白那段还是感人的。
缺点就是冲突处理的太差了
很治愈、清新、明亮的绘本动画电影，每个故事都那么贴合实际，无论是在怎样的境遇下，所有角色都是“向着明亮那方”。最喜欢《蒯老伯的糖水铺》《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》两个故事，里面有绵远的乡情、浓厚的亲情，看着这两个片段，不自觉地就代入了自己的爷爷和外婆，那些未竟的遗憾和内心的愧疚，只有从电影里寻找和解了吧。
虽然后半场不间断地哭了一个小时，但也只是一部口味纯正到一点新意也没有的爱情日影。有点无法评价这部片子，像是在评价某某的死亡，让我觉得很愧疚。哎演员总能说两句吧，坂口健太郎飞速从漂亮小男孩变成霓虹的某个长相周正的路人。
nana真好看，是不是所有悲剧的内核都是遗憾
《萤火虫女孩》被改编得面目全非。至少有两个故事是成人的怀旧视角。相对来说，比较喜欢《哼将军和哈将军》
《向着明亮那方》采用单元片模式，以绘本和儿童文学为创作蓝本进行改编，以水墨、水彩、剪纸、定格等不同的形式，展现了独特而纯朴的国风美学。这是中国内地第一部绘本动画，由顾辰、朱彦潼监制，兰茜雅、李念泽、赵易、俞昆、刘高翔、刘毛宁、陈晨七位导演分别执导七个短片，这七个短片虽然题材、内容并不关联，但是总体而言，却都能让观众由其中感受到许多的温暖与爱，无论是童趣世界，还是童年回忆，以及我们生活中许许多多的美好瞬间，那些欢乐的片段、浓浓的乡愁、淡淡的忧伤，就这样被娓娓道来。
哭一哭更舒服！風吹落櫻下兩人回望對視這幕很唯美🌸 比起愛情，親人和朋友之間的細節也很好哭，沙苗真知心朋友！那個朋友介紹有心臟病的男人做男朋友，還說因為有類似經歷更能Blahblahblah也是有毒🌝 好寫實。後期畫面有穿插小說文字內容、DV機的記錄，美好又細膩。
小松太美了 美女连鼻梁痣都是氛围感#整部电影最感动的地方是滑雪回来以后小松抱着妈妈哭 说自己想再活的久一点 在爱人面前可以假装坚强笑着说再见 在妈妈面前才能任性的说自己也不甘心 也想活下去 太戳我了😭
#向着明亮那方 喜欢《小火车》这个故事，小朋友对火车情有独钟，父母陪着他去看火车，一家人穿过隧道快到头的时候我还能记得爸爸说接下来的路你得自己走你放心爸爸妈妈永远在你身后，一瞬间就破防了，孩子回应到你们放手吧！镜头切换孩子走出了黑乎乎的隧道看到了明亮看到了喜欢的火车，是啊父母的爱给了他闯过人生黑暗的勇气，人生就像小火车总会吱吱呀呀的开往远方，开向明亮那方。喜欢影片里爸爸这种把爱把关心把鼓励直接说出来的表达方式。
还不错，最喜欢的就是哼将军和哈将军那个，真的很好笑
靠絕症純愛感受霓虹四季美景。就是死人純愛模板能來的都規規矩矩來了一遍，八股文都沒這麼工整。除了讀著小說稿子哭了的坂口，對我來說毫無催淚元素，不過nana靠著媽媽哭那裡演得挺好。主cp就麻麻了，副cp我還沒看兩眼居然就成過去式了⋯⋯yukinao好配啊再共演吧！
故事讲得平庸也不耽误我看俊男美女。但编剧和导演还是得好好反省！！！
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
不管是血浓于水的亲情，还是来自陌生人善意的馈赠，都会让我们感受到一种久违的温暖和感动。这部电影不仅展现了属于中国人的爱与美，而且让一些长期被人忽视的东西在银幕上闪耀出夺目的光芒，让我们的内心被照亮。这才是这个时代，我们的孩子们该看的电影！
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