Fans Restore Legendary Super Mario Bros. Animated Film From 1986
The group known as FemboyFilms recently released a restored version of the legendary Super Mario Bros: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! The movie was originally screened in theaters across Japan before being released on VHS and Betamax in 1986. The anime has long been thought to be more or less lost, but fans of the franchise are now able to enjoy the movie in 4K thanks to FemboyFilms.
Super Mario Bros: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! was directed by Masami Hata and produced by Masakatsu Suzuki and Tsunemasa Hatano. The plot revolves around Mario and Luigi embarking on a quest to save Princess Toadstool from King Koopa. The anime is known for being the first movie based on a video game apart from Running Boy: Star Soldier's Secret which came out on the very same day.
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“Bing, Bing, Wahoo! Get ready for an adventure of super proportions,” FemboyFilms announced. “This is our 4K Restoration of the 1986 animated film Super Mario Bros: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! which for us has been months in the making, but for other fans who'd known about it much earlier, years in the making. We are honored to be the ones to restore this film to get it looking the best it ever has and likely the best it ever will.”
FemboyFilms went through a lengthy restoration process in order to get the aging movie looking sharp. “This comes from a 16mm reduction print likely used for small, local screenings back in the day when it was released. It's likely one of the if not the only surviving print in the world.” The group went on to describe how the print was “very dirty and had some pretty terrible splices around the reel changes. However, we were
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