In 1986, long before Super Mario Bros. Super Show first hit the air, a 60-minute long anime movie, called Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen (Translation: "The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach"), was produced and released in Japan.

This film is now extremely rare, and almost impossible to find, even inside Japan. However, Dino Dude was lucky enough to find a couple of videoclips from this very rare anime, including the first five minutes (which was then roughly translated) and also a mid-film sneak peek of an encounter between Peach and Bowser.

Since the upload by Dino Dude, one of our forum members, Cryoshi, had acquired all parts and offered them for download in the forums. Cryoshi has credited former youtube member Mendinso for supplying the videotape. His name appears in the bottom-right corner per his request.

So, I am putting them online here for you all to enjoy! I hope you like them, and I am hoping to get the entire thing up very soon.

Please note: All these clips are in Japanese language. However, the first five minutes were kindly translated by Milun. Please note this is only a basic translation to give you an idea, as we did not have any native speakers to do a translation for us.

You will also need a media player that can play .MP4 files in order to view the first set of preview clips, and .avi for the full-length parts. If you have any problems playing these files, I recommend downloading VLC Media Player.