A
liquid crystal composition including
liquid crystalline compounds, polymerizable compounds, and dichroic dyes in which the polymerizable compound includes at least one compound represented by Formula (1),R11-MES-Sp11-P11 (1)in Formula (1), R11 is an
alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms; MES is a mesogenic group having at least one ring, and in the ring in MES, at least one
hydrogen atom is optionally substituted with -Sp11-P11; Sp11 is a
single bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and in this alkylene group, at least one —CH2— is optionally substituted with —O—, —CO—, —COO—, —OCO—, or —OCOO—, and at least one —(CH2)2— is optionally substituted with —CH═CH— or —C≡C—, and in these groups, at least one
hydrogen atom is optionally substituted with a polymerizable group; P11 is a polymerizable group or a polar group, or a group having both
polymerization and polarity.