Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof

A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, comprising the steps of:

• preparing first and second substrates positioned so as to face each other, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, and containing a polymerizable component that is polymerized by light or heat, a plurality of pixel electrodes formed over the first substrate, for controlling a tilt angle of liquid crystal molecules on a pixel region-by-pixel region basis according to an applied voltage, and a counter electrode formed over the second substrate, and positioned so as to face the plurality of pixel electrodes;
• and
• polymerizing the polymerizable component of the liquid crystal layer with a predetermined voltage being applied to a region corresponding to those pixels whose transmittance-drive voltage characteristics are shifted toward higher voltages in a normal drive operation, where the predetermined voltage is applied so that the transmittance-drive voltage characteristics are shifted toward lower voltages by an amount equal to or larger than an amount of the shift toward higher voltages.