Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium comprising a recording magnetic layer made of a perpendicularly magnetized film and a multilayer reproducing film, wherein the multilayer reproducing film has two reproducing magnetic layers which are in a in-plane magnetized state at room temperature and shift to a perpendicularly magnetized state with a rise in temperature and an in-panel magnetized layer disposed between the two reproducing magnetic layers, which is in an in-plane magnetized state from room temperature to a Curie temperature and has a lower Curie temperature than the recording magnetic layer and the reproducing magnetic layers.