Provided is a
liquid crystal display device capable of achieving high-speed response,
high transmittance and contrast, and excellent viewing angle characteristics in both rising and falling. The
liquid crystal display device performs color display in a plurality of
subframe periods included in one frame period by field sequential driving, and includes: a
liquid crystal display panel; a
light source that irradiates the
liquid crystal display panel with light of a plurality of colors; and a controller that drives the
light source so that light of the plurality of colors is irradiated to the
liquid crystal display panel in time division, the
liquid crystal display panel successively having: a first substrate having a pixel
electrode, a first alignment film, a liquid
crystal layer, a second alignment film, and a second substrate having a common
electrode, the liquid
crystal layer having a first domain and a second domain in which alignment vectors are different from each other when no
voltage is applied, when the alignment vectors are defined with a
long axis end portion of the first substrate side of the liquid
crystal molecules as a start point and a
long axis end portion of the second substrate side as an end point.