The Japanese animated film Kimi no Na wa (Your Name), directed by Makoto Shinkai, premiered in 2016 and quickly became positively revered and awarded as the second-highest-grossing anime film at the time of its release. The movie contains romantic and fantastical elements to tell the story of Mitsuha Miyamizu, a girl from the rural countryside, and Taki Tachibana, a boy from Tokyo, who somehow begin to swap bodies with each other and attempt to meet in person. However, things get more complicated when they discover Mitsuha is three years in the past, just before a natural disaster strikes her town. This study aims to understand how Kimi no Na wa expresses modern Japanese identity. This investigation will contain an analysis of the Kimi no Na wa's visual and narrative elements, including framing, lighting, color, score, and iconography, and their relation to Japanese culture as depicted in the film. The characters Mitsuha and Taki will act as case studies to showcase identity and allow us to focus on specific facets of Japanese society. These facets comprise of gender, Japanese historical traditions, geographical differences within Japan, and the effects of disaster on Japanese culture. The findings of this research will help us understand modern Japanese identity as a whole and how it appears in film. This study offers a platform for discourse on portrayals of identity in film as well as an understanding of modern Japanese identity as it is portrayed in film, with an emphasis on views on gender identity in Japan, historical traditions, regional differences within Japan, and how living in a disaster-prone area affects Japanese society.