A liquid crystal display apparatus, having a designated drive means composed of a group of electrodes (3, 4) forming pixels in the nXm matrix and active devices, in which the electrodes (3, 4) have a structure with which an electric field parallel to the interface can be applied to the liquid crystal composite layer, and the cell-gap between substrates (1) facing to each other is 6 µm or less and the response time is less than or equal to 100 ms and greater than or equal to 1 ms.