On November 5, 2014, Ringo Sheena released her fifth studio album Hi Izuru Tokoro, her first after parting with her band Tokyo Jihen.

Before the same time of the release of "Shijō no Jinsei", Sheena was also commissioned to write a song for boyband SMAP, "Karei Naru Gyakushū" (華麗なる逆襲, "Magnificent Counterattack"), which was used as the theme song for the drama Zeni no Sensō, a Japanese remake of the South Korean drama War of Money (2007) starring SMAP member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi.

The song was released as a part of SMAP's single "Karei Naru Gyakushū" / "Humor Shichau yo" on February 18, 2015.

[1] The song was written as a tribute to Marumaru-zuma screenwriter Kazuhiko Yukawa and the drama's production staff.

[7] It was a video that incorporated both "Shijō no Jinsei" and the single's B-side "Donzoko Made", and featured Sheena and a band performing the songs in grayscale.