A display device displaying an image by switching a two-dimensional display and a three-dimensional display, the display device comprising: a display panel performing an image display; and a liquid crystal display panel being disposed at a display surface side of the display panel; the liquid crystal display panel comprising: a first transparent substrate comprising a planar transparent electrode; a second transparent substrate being opposite to the first substrate; the second transparent substrate comprising a plurality of strip-shaped electrodes extending in a first direction and being arranged in parallel in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, in which the plurality of strip-shaped electrodes are formed of a transparent electrode material and the second transparent substrate further comprises a plurality of strip-shaped light shielding portions overlapping with the plurality of strip-shaped electrodes and extending in the first direction, and a liquid crystal layer being interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein cylindrical lenses extending in the first direction, being arranged in parallel in the second direction, and making up a parallax barrier, are formed by controlling a refraction index of the liquid crystal layer, and the width of the strip-shaped electrodes in the second direction is different from that of the light shielding portions, characterised in that the longitudinal direction in an initial orientation of liquid crystal molecules making up the liquid crystal layer intersects with the first direction and intersects obliquely with the second substrate, the width of the strip-shaped electrodes in the second direction is larger than that of the light shielding portions, and the light shielding portions are formed at a peripheral edge of the strip-shaped electrodes at the side where an end of liquid crystal molecules in the longitudinal direction is close to the second substrate in the second direction. a display panel performing an image display; and a liquid crystal display panel being disposed at a display surface side of the display panel; the liquid crystal display panel comprising: a first transparent substrate comprising a planar transparent electrode; a second transparent substrate being opposite to the first substrate; the second transparent substrate comprising a plurality of strip-shaped electrodes extending in a first direction and being arranged in parallel in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, in which a first transparent substrate comprising a planar transparent electrode; a second transparent substrate being opposite to the first substrate; the second transparent substrate comprising a plurality of strip-shaped electrodes extending in a first direction and being arranged in parallel in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, in which the plurality of strip-shaped electrodes are formed of a transparent electrode material and the second transparent substrate further comprises a plurality of strip-shaped light shielding portions overlapping with the plurality of strip-shaped electrodes and extending in the first direction, and a liquid crystal layer being interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; wherein cylindrical lenses extending in the first direction, being arranged in parallel in the second direction, and making up a parallax barrier, are formed by controlling a refraction index of the liquid crystal layer, and the width of the strip-shaped electrodes in the second direction is different from that of the light shielding portions, characterised in that the longitudinal direction in an initial orientation of liquid crystal molecules making up the liquid crystal layer intersects with the first direction and intersects obliquely with the second substrate, the width of the strip-shaped electrodes in the second direction is larger than that of the light shielding portions, and the light shielding portions are formed at a peripheral edge of the strip-shaped electrodes at the side where an end of liquid crystal molecules in the longitudinal direction is close to the second substrate in the second direction.