Abstract: A bistable liquid crystal display device includes nematic liquid crystal that is interposed between a pair of substrates, an orientation film that is subjected to a uniform inclined orientation treatment and an electrode, on one of the substrates, and an orientation film that has alternately formed vertical and horizontal orientation regions and an electrode, on the other substrate. An angle of an easy orientation axis of liquid crystal molecules close to the other substrate is changed between an orientation state in which one end of the easy orientation axis of the liquid crystal molecules is inclined toward the one substrate with respect to a normal of the pair of substrates and an orientation state in which the one end is inclined toward the other substrate.