As a bridge between natural landscape and human society, landscape function is always an important content of landscape ecology. Multifunctional landscape becomes closely related with the decision of land use by means of endowing landscape function with human value judgments. Till now, it has been an important development direction of landscape function research, an important field of multi-disciplinary integrated landscape study, as well as a new discipline growth of landscape ecology. Based on comprehensively analyzing the conceptual connotation of multifunctional landscape, the similarities and differences among the four concepts, i.e., multifunctional landscape, landscape multi-functionality, multifunctional agriculture, and ecosystem services are also fully contrasted and clarified. Focused on such three key issues as landscape multi-functionality assessment, spatial identification of multifunctional landscape, and multifunctional landscape planning and management, the updated research progress and main shortcomings on multifunctional landscape are deeply discussed. Finally, five topics are proposed as future research directions on multifunctional landscape, i.e., mechanism analysis of trade-offs in multifunctional landscape, regional categorization of multifunctional landscape, scaling and zoning effects assessment of multifunctional landscape, dynamic prediction of multifunctional landscape, and scenario simulation of multifunctional landscape.