Having the object of facilitating the cued playback of important scenes even for video content on which cue point information has not been conferred, a video content playback assistance method includes steps of: acquiring identical video correspondence information that indicates the correspondence relation of identical video, which are identical partial video contained in common in a plurality of items of video content; when cued playback is instructed, specifying the points of identical video in video content based on the acquired identical video correspondence information and specifying cue points based on the points of identical video that have been specified, and reproducing video from the specified cue points based on the video content.