Liquid crystal display

A liquid crystal display comprising

• a liquid crystal display element having a pair of light-transmitting substrates that have opposing surfaces, each of the opposing surfaces having a transparent electrode and an alignment film respectively formed thereon, and a liquid crystal layer that is interpolated between the substrates, wherein the transparent electrodes are arranged on the opposing surfaces so as to establish a plurality of display pixels;
• a pair of polarizers that are placed on both sides of the liquid crystal display element;
• an optical phase-difference plate that is interpolated at least in either of gaps between the liquid crystal display element and the pair of the polarizers;
• wherein the liquid crystal layer in each pixel is oriented by the alignment film in different directions so that it is divided into divisions of the liquid crystal layer having respectively different sizes;
• and
• wherein the optical phase-difference plate is placed so that an index ellipsoid, which is represented by principal refractive indexes in three directions of the optical phase-difference plate and which identifies anisotropy of the principal refractive indexes of the optical phase-difference plate, is inclined with respect to a surface of the optical phase-difference plate, and so that upon application of a voltage to the transparent electrodes, a tilted direction of liquid crystal molecules in a vicinity of a surface of the corresponding alignment film is opposite to the inclined direction of the index ellipsoid, with respect to the largest division of the liquid crystal layer in the pixel.