A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first protective film; a
first polarizing film; an optical compensation region; a liquid crystal
cell comprising a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates
sandwiching the liquid crystal layer; a second polarizing film; and a
second protective layer, in this order, wherein at a black display,
liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer are aligned in
parallel with surfaces of said pair of substrates, an antiglare layer is
provided to at least one of the first protective film and the second
protective layer, and the antiglare layer has a haze value attributable
to internal scattering of from 5 to 35%, and a haze value attributable to
surface scattering of from 1 to 10%.