[3] The film features an entirely East Asian cast as the eponymous characters: a poor toy-maker, his son, Hansel, and daughter, Gretel, and his wicked new wife, who overtly despises her stepchildren.
Their father waits until his cruel wife is asleep and goes into the attic with a small clown puppet he'd made and a few cookies he'd sneaked for them to cheer the children up.
The witch brings the children to her dining table where an enormous cake sits, adorned with small cutouts of Hansel and Gretel.
The witch then tells them the furniture and even the walls of the house are real candy, which the children happily and greedily enjoy.
The witch, seemingly upset with herself for not thinking how tired the children must be, bring Hansel and Gretel upstairs to a large bedroom with two giant marshmallow beds for them to sleep in.
The bed then reveals a mouth-like doorway in the wall which drops Hansel into a cavernous room with a strange mobile hanging down from the ceiling.
The witch pulls a chain hanging from her ceiling which causes two long arms to drop from the mobile above Hansel and bring him back up to the kitchen so she could begin baking him.
Hansel and Gretel lock the witch inside the oven as the house begins to melt and ooze with frosting.
As the children celebrate with their father, the swan boat begins to spout gold coins from its mouth, thus providing them with the wealth they have needed.
[citation needed] In June 2014, a copy of the short appeared in its entirety online[8] with a better quality and more complete version, with end credits intact (although the introduction featuring Vincent Price is missing).