Method for manufacturing a multilayer film comprising a step of directly applying a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound onto a surface of a fed-out first substrate

A method for manufacturing a multilayer film comprising:

• a first long-length substrate;
• and
• an optically anisotropic layer that is formed directly on the first substrate and contains cured liquid-crystal molecules, wherein
• the first substrate has an orientation-controlling force caused by stretching and has a birefringence Δn of 0.000050 or more and has a phase difference Re in an in-plane direction of 30 nm or more,
• a slow axis of the first substrate is different from a lengthwise direction of the first substrate, and
• the cured liquid-crystal molecules of the optically anisotropic layer have homogeneous orientation regularity in substantially a same direction as a direction of the slow axis of the first substrate,
• the method comprising:
• a step (I) of feeding out a long-length first substrate in the lengthwise direction, the first substrate having an orientation-controlling force caused by stretching, a birefringence Δn of 0.000050 or more and a phase difference Re in an in-plane direction of 30 nm or more, wherein a slow axis of the first substrate is different from a lengthwise direction of the first substrate;
• a step (II) of directly applying onto a surface of the fed-out first substrate a liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound to form a layer of the liquid crystal composition;
• a step (III) of giving orientation to the polymerizable liquid crystal compound in the layer of the liquid crystal composition;
• and
• a step (IV) of polymerizing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound to form cured liquid-crystal molecules.