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In Yokoku Satsujin, the 2019 TV Asahi Japanese adaptation of A Murder is Announced, Shinaji Kurie (品地栗江 - Kurie Shinaji in Western format) is a farmer and the parallel of Miss Hinchcliffe from the original novel. Nicknamed "Hinchi" (from the syllables in her name), she and her friend Machita Totoko ("Toto") run a farm which supplies produce to Komichi-no-yakata (Little Hall - "Little Paddocks").

In this adaptation, Toto and Hinchi are much younger, being only about 25 and thus possible candidates for Shizuho ("Pip") and Enma ("Emma"), children of Soniya (素仁愛), the sister of the late Hokkaido millionaire Gaido Randoru (外道兰毘).

Hinchi has a smaller role in this adaptation. This is because her partner "Toto" is killed earlier, shortly after Kurumai Kyuzo (Rudi Scherz). Like in the original, Toto and Hinchi re-enact the scene at Komichi-no-yakata. Toto suddenly remembers starts to say something but Hinchi gets a call and rushes off. Someone has left an abandoned cat at the local police post and the policeman has called Hinchi to ask if she will adopt the cat. Unfortunately someone has someone has overheard Toto and when Hinchi returns with the cat, Toto has been strangled. Toto used a gender-neutral construction "that person wasn't there" so all Hinchi could tell the police was that someone at the party was not in the room.

Because Toto died early on, Hinchi was not present at the birthday party for "Dora". Hinchi is present at the denouement but she does not charge at "Reiri" in anger as in the original.

The part of Hinchi is played by Ogo Suzuka (大後 寿々花).

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