To provide an image reproducing apparatus which requires a small amount of memory capacity in reverse reproduction. The apparatus has an analyzing unit for acquiring interrelation between a plurality of items of reference image data to be referred to during decode processing from control data with a stream of encoded data, a buffer unit, and a decoding unit. An accumulation control unit uses the interrelation information obtained in the analyzing unit to extract the plurality of items of reference image data from the stream and to temporarily accumulate the same in the buffer unit. A decode control unit sequentially outputs reproduced image data decoded in the decoding unit in reverse time series as a reverse reproduction.