山本一夫 / Kazuo Yamamoto (My Date with a Vampire)

Overview

山本一夫 is the wartime antagonist transformed alongside 况天佑 and 复生 in the 1938 opening of 《我和僵尸有个约会》.

Current Profile

Introduced as a Japanese officer whose pursuit ends in the 红溪村 massacre and fight with 况国华, Yamamoto survives Jiangchen’s bite and reappears sixty years later under the elderly identity 山本龙一. He has used unaging life to accumulate wealth, build a corporate organization, recruit subordinates, and prepare a project of domination rather than hide quietly within human society.

His abilities form the opening episode’s main rule contrast. The story suggests that live human blood makes him stronger than Kuang and Fusheng, who use blood bags or substitutes, and may explain why he can simulate old age. The hosts find the hierarchy narratively useful but incomplete: some explanation may be retrospective, and his personal attacks seem inefficient for a wealthy man able to secure blood by other means.

Key Characteristics

• Carries wartime violence into the contemporary plot under a concealed identity.
• Converts immortality into wealth, organization, hierarchy, and expansion.
• Feeds on living people and is presented as stronger than vampires using substitutes.
• Uses apparent old age to conceal continuity across six decades.
• Employs the 初春 ghost commission as concealment, testing, or preparation.
• Reveals unresolved tensions in the series’ feeding and power rules.

Evidence

Wartime origin and modern identity

• 085 《我和僵尸有个约会》：集灵异、僵尸、悬疑、爱情、奇幻于一体的童年经典 connects the 红溪村 massacre, fight with 况国华, Jiangchen’s bite, and the later 山本龙一 identity.

Wealth, organization, and ambition

• 085 《我和僵尸有个约会》：集灵异、僵尸、悬疑、爱情、奇幻于一体的童年经典 describes his commercial group, vampire subordinates, concealed survival, and plan to overturn the existing world.

Power-rule uncertainty

• 085 《我和僵尸有个约会》：集灵异、僵尸、悬疑、爱情、奇幻于一体的童年经典 reports the live-blood explanation while preserving the hosts’ objections about retrospective patching and economically irrational personal feeding.

Qualifications

This profile covers the opening installment as retold by one podcast and does not settle later continuity, his full plan, or Jiangchen’s reason for transforming him. Strategic motives assigned to the 初春 commission and claims about later explanatory patches are interpretations rather than verified authorial intent.

What Changed

• Established Yamamoto as the domination-oriented contrast to Kuang and Fusheng’s constrained, nonlethal immortality.

Relationships

• 《我和僵尸有个约会》 - series containing his wartime and contemporary identities.
• 况天佑 - former battlefield opponent and surviving rival.
• 复生 - fellow transformation whose desired ordinary life contrasts with Yamamoto’s project.
• 马小玲 - exorcist hired through his 山本龙一 identity and potentially tested by the assignment.
• Immortality Transformation Consent / 永生转化同意 - concept distinguishing acquisition of endless life from the uses made of it.