Illuminating apparatus and display apparatus

A display apparatus comprising:

• an illuminating device including a light source and a liquid crystal light control panel;
• and
• a display section including a liquid crystal display panel with a pair of first polarizers and displaying a video image based on an input video signal through using illumination light from the illuminating apparatus as display light, wherein
• the liquid crystal light control panel has a pair of second polarizers and suppressing amount of transmission of light from the light source, so as to allow the light from the light source to have such a light intensity distribution along a plane that light intensity is locally reduced, and
• each of the first polarizers has a first polarizing layer having a first thickness and each of the second polarizers has a second polarizing layer having a second thickness, in which the second thickness has a value less than that of the first thickness so as to cause a polarization degree of the second polarizers to be less than that of the first polarizers such that transmission light amount ratio of the second polarizers is lower than that of the first polarizers.