an object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device that has an excellent mass - productivity and gives an image improved by the reduction of the chromaticity difference between white display and black display , the reduction of coloring and luminance in black display , and the improvement of the contrast ratio . in the present invention , of a pair of alignment films 131 and 132 formed on a pair of substrates 101 and 102 , respectively , the alignment film 132 formed on the glass substrate 102 on the observer side is made of a material obtained by adding a photoisomerized compound to a photosensitive polymer and has anisotropic absorption all over the visible light wavelength region .