A liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a curved screen; a backlight; a signal corrector configured to generate a control signal that sets a luminance of the backlight to a lower level at a lower grayscale level of a video signal input thereto, and output the video signal and the control signal; a liquid crystal panel driver configured to drive the liquid crystal panel based on the video signal output from the signal corrector; and a backlight driver configured to drive the backlight based on the control signal output from the signal corrector, the liquid crystal panel including a first polarizing plate, a liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizing plate, the first and second polarizing plates being disposed such that their transmission axes form an angle θ (unit: °), the angle θ satisfying a relationship 85