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".
浪客剑心系列的文戏实际上都比较一般，最突出的是武打戏，而在这一部，原著全本最具有情感冲击力的故事中，大友启史终于做出了抉择，武戏减少，文戏增多，处理得也可圈可点，至少不算差。另外作为前传，剑心终于用上了刀刃，刀刀见血，着实爽快。4星。
剑戟片打斗做的还蛮好的（比上一部好）但还是没法接受佐藤健老师肺痨病人一样的演出……
之前每部都给三星，最后一部勉强打个四星吧，拿着最强文本结果还是拍得如此温吞平庸，这文戏导演水平真是烂得令人发指。谷垣健治忍了四部终于解放了，各种血浆怎么暴力怎么来哈哈，真的难以想象这个系列如果没有他会烂成什么样。
4.3/无数次感叹：佐藤健真的是浪客剑心本心 童年圆满 一个爆哭
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。
真人化的确难做，又不能完全复刻，又不能太多加工。
演巴的丈夫的是不是洼田正孝啊？每一部里都得死一遍又惨又好笑。先看这部再看人诛篇噢！
当年看着动画已经非常感动，有些桥段还是人演比较更能打动人心
国乱之际，剑心为开创新时代变成刽子手，没看过原漫，一腔热情沦为工具的命运不知会否有变。追忆篇讲述剑心脸上十字疤的因缘由来，了解后觉得有些悲凉讽刺，这是人生体验也是命运捉弄。
剧情非常简单？因为女人少年软弱了又振作了？！全片可以说就是一个女人带来的改变。村姑发挥余地太小。画面没得说，打斗过瘾，唯美也不错。岛国就是这样守护啊，爱人啊什么的路子……都是为了各自为了生存罢了，哪有那么多伟光正。
贯彻始终的物哀
感觉视觉上剑客的对决还是带血冲击感比较大，开场几个打戏都很爽。反而是后面的感情戏有点戳不动我，跟漫画还是有点差距的，配乐欠缺了点。
如果没有追忆片ova珠玉在前，还可以说是及格以上优秀未满，现在只能深刻感受到次元壁的存在。和演技无关，真人确实做不来动画里的面无表情不动声色，强行面瘫只会显得人很呆滞。电影也难以还原动画里日常慢悠悠的节奏。巴的选角是堪比葛薇龙一般的败笔，有村扮相上努力向清冷美人靠近了，但她身上的钝感力和马思纯有一拼。雪代巴是油尽灯枯苦苦支撑的最后一点微光，有村生命力还是太强，你看着她的后脑勺都能想象她脸上的温和表情。片里唯一不出戏的角色是桂，连剑心都像郭靖上身，还是李亚鹏版的。最后，是谁给冲田总司整了个凌乱月代头啊！有仇吧！
想看黑寡妇的发现没有合适的时间段准备就看了剑心，还行，比另一部the final强一点…
不敢相信浪客劍心最終章這部《追憶篇》和前面拍的《人殊篇》竟然是同樣的導演和編劇，兩部呈現的風格與質感簡直有天壤之別。
日后他依旧会杀人，然而在更遥远的将来，他能保护的人，肯定多过死在他剑下的人。很难想象他遇到神谷薰之前，曾经有过一段这样的往事。
好想回家 我自己养活不了自己啦
太唯美了，如果不是作为终章的终章而是单拎出来看，感觉效果会减分......
相信大部分人喜欢浪客剑心原作要归功于追忆篇，真人版追忆篇果然也是最好的一部（最佳动作戏还是第三部决战志志雄）。作为刽子手的拔刀斋，爱恨交织的雪代巴，还顺带埋了志志雄的伏笔，佐藤健对绯村剑心的演绎接近完美，唯一的缺憾就是有村架纯略缺灵气。
这部收官之作是成功的，几乎完美复刻当年的场景和剧情，台词，人设，经典桥段。
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