A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal display in which polarizing plates A and B are provided so as to be held between a vertical orientation mode crystal cell and the corresponding liquid crystal cell, wherein the polarizing layer A comprises the polarizing plate protective films A1 and A2 and the polarizing layer B comprises the polarizing plate protective films B1 and B2, and at least one of the polarizing plate protective films A2 and B2 that are disposed at the liquid crystal cell side is a cellulose ester film Y that simultaneously satisfies the condition that retardation value Ro is 0 to 10 nm and Rt is -20 to 20 nm shown by the equation below, and at least one of the polarizing plate protective films A2 and B2 is the optical compensation film W which has an optically anisotropic layer.