A liquid crystal display is furnished with: a liquid crystal display
element having a pair of substrates, to which alignment members are
provided to their respective opposing surfaces, and a liquid crystal layer
sandwiched by the pair of substrates; an alignment mechanism for providing
at least two different director configurations simultaneously on different
arbitrary regions used for display in the liquid crystal layer; and a
reflection film provided to at least one of the different arbitrary
regions showing different director configurations; wherein the different
arbitrary regions showing different director configurations are used for a
reflection display section for showing reflection display and a
transmission display section for showing transmission display,
respectively. Examples of the alignment mechanism include an alignment
film to which the alignment treatment is applied in different orientations
in the reflection display section and transmission display section,
respectively, an insulation film having different film thicknesses in the
reflection display section and transmission display section, and so forth.