The Mario movie so unhinged, Nintendo buried it for 30 years.
When Princess Peach is kidnapped by the monster King Koopa, Mario and his brother Luigi journey to the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue her.
Sound
Original songs that slap harder than they should
Writing
Isekai before isekai was a thing — Mario gets yeeted by a TV
Director
Masami Hata
Toru Furuya
Mario (voice)
Yu Mizushima
Luigi (voice)
Mami Yamase
Princess Peach (voice)
Akiko Wada
King Koopa Bowser (voice)
Kohei Miyauchi
Mushroom Hermit (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
Kibidango (voice)
Hiroko Emori
Toad (voice)
Hiroko Maruyama
Goomba (voice)
Kazue Komiya
Goomba (voice)
Tetsuo Mizutori
Koopa Troopa (voice)
Masaharu Sato
Koopa Troopa (voice)
Keaton Yamada
Hammer Brother (voice)
Masami Kikuchi
Prince Haru (voice)
Joji Yanami
Priest (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the FIRST video game movie ever made, predating even the live-action disaster by seven years. Nintendo was so embarrassed they refused to acknowledge its existence until a 2023 re-release.
The 'magic mushroom' power-ups hit different in 1986 Japan — this was peak psychedelic-adjacent children's media before global marketing sanitized Mario into a corporate mascot.
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