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Case in point: I have both Death Note movies (Japanese Blu-ray disc) and the back of the cover only states 16/9. When played on my HDTV, the picture fills up the entire screen (no black bars)

For now I have inputed them as 1.78:1 but I see that the Kitaro Movie (which also fills up the screen) is in the database as 1.85:1.

Your discs may have been from a different transfer to my DVD, but my Death Note films are both 16:9. I believe they were originally made for television, so that would make sense to use the whole screen.
I don't have the Kitaro Movie so can't check that. It's possible that your TV has overscan so you simply can't see the black bars, or it's a mistake on the profile/cover.

Just a minor correction, but the Death Note films were not TV films, they were made for theatrical distribution (there was an anime TV series).  They were high-profile projects with $20 million dollar budgets each (and grossed over $100 million in Japan together).

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Just a minor correction, but the Death Note films were not TV films, they were made for theatrical distribution (there was an anime TV series).  They were high-profile projects with $20 million dollar budgets each (and grossed over $100 million in Japan together).

Thanks. I think the reason I thought that was because one of the studios in the credits is Nippon Television Network.

Nippon Television Network is involved in certain films, usually connected to their anime they produced (like Death Note).  You will also see them attached to most Studio Ghibli projects.

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the only difficult part comes determining 2.35 vs. 2.40).

The rules say to use the cover unless it's measurably wrong and I would say for most people 2.35:1 and 2.40: 1 are not measurable given that very few people will be using a reference monitor that is guaranteed not to have any stretch/distortion.

So it's not difficult, it just might be wrong