Mother
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Starring Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyōko Kagawa, Eiji Okada, Akihiko Katayama, Daisuke Katō, Yônosuke Toba, Masao Mishima, Chieko Nakakita, Eiko Miyoshi, Atsuko Ichinomiya
Watch "Mother" on Criterion Channel released in 1952. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7.6 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.